Supreme Court watchers are predicting the court won’t vote to strike down Obamacare after listening to oral arguments today in a case brought by Republican state officials questioning the constitutionality of the law:
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh both signaled in arguments today that they aren't prepared to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act.https://t.co/BuJuizB6sb
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 10, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts notably said, it’s “not our job” to get rid of the ACA when Congress would not:
Chief Justice Roberts says striking down Obamacare, when Congress wouldn't, is "not our job."
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) November 10, 2020
And people are predicting that Justice Kavanaugh, “at the very least,” will “provide a 5th vote for severing the one provision the plaintiffs & Trump attack, leaving the rest in place”:
If you didn’t listen to oral arguments, tl; dr: There is no chance the Supreme Court is going to invalidate Obamacare. At the very least, Justice Kavanaugh will provide a 5th vote for severing the one provision the plaintiffs & Trump Admin attack, leaving the rest in place. https://t.co/K9FWXphYbF
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) November 10, 2020
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Of course, anything could happen:
The justices sent some mixed signals, but on a key issue both Roberts and Kavanaugh seemed inclined to agree with the law's defenders. https://t.co/wxRAmRvezY via @HuffPostPol
— Kate Sheppard (@kate_sheppard) November 10, 2020
But if Kavanaugh does vote the way people think he will, there sure will be a lot of libs who owe him (another) apology:
It's almost like the conservative commentators were correct, the Democratic Senators were all full of crap, and yet the media played along and did the "both sides" thing. https://t.co/rnysfjUTOi
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) November 10, 2020
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