ACA Supreme Court Tuesday

[Riot]

One opinion about the oral arguments today, predicts a 7-2 win (with Thomas and Scalia dissenting)

Nothing from Thomas but he is assumed to be opposed.

Pretty firm opposition from Scalia who was almost dismissive of arguments favoring the mandate and made the truly absurd broccoli analogy.

Alito seemed critical, with a couple of exceptions, but not dismissive.

Roberts and Kennedy had good questions for both sides. Towards the end I thought both were favoring the Government's position. The search for a limiting rule was evident in Kennedy's question and he was offered a couple. Breyer tried to help out there.

Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor seemed to clearly understand, for several reasons, why this falls within Congress' power.