There is speculation the court may strike down the mandate in the law, but not the entire law.
“There is speculation the court may strike down the mandate in the law, but not the entire law.”
It’s not the USSC’s problem that this legislative mess didn’t include the severability clause. Striking down the entire thing, which through haste and political pressures has introduced a pandora’s box of nightmarish legal, execution and funding problems, would be the cleanest way to deal with it. Simply dispatch the loathsome hydra. However, it will more likely be a matter of declaring the mandate unconstitutional and letting the political process resolve the resulting mess.