Overturning Obamacare is so simple, even a caveman could do it. They built the law forcing health insurers to cover everyone at the same rate. It became obvious that people weren’t going to buy coverage until they needed it which would cause the pool of payers to be only very sick people. The only way to get the pool of people to contribute was to add the individual mandate and if you didn’t pay you were assessed a fine or tax or penalty. By doing this the federal government took over policing action which is a state responsibility. The government went way beyond their limited, enumerated and regulated power and tried to insert their authority to make people do things, which states control. Even Kagan and Sotomayor should know enough about the law to vote Obamacare down. If they don’t they have no business being Supreme Court justices.
“Even Kagan and Sotomayor should know enough about the law to vote Obamacare down. If they don’t they have no business being Supreme Court justices.”
Right, but so?
What rose-colored glasses do you wear? (LOL) And that is what will be absolutely fascinating thing to me, how Ruth "Buzzi" Ginsberg, Kagan, and the "Wise Latina" construct their dissenting opinion. Their dissent will reveal a lot of very, very scary stuff about how they capriciously liberate the Constitution from its original intent.
It doesn't matter if the decision is 9-0 or 5-4. If it goes down, it goes down.
Sometimes, the justices will vote with the minority just to write an opinion basically outlining where the losing party went wrong. The fact that it is going down gives them cover.
Its just like Congress in that regard.
By how much it goes down doesn't matter; it is only important THAT it goes down. The rest is fluff.