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UTUSN

(70,695 posts) Sat Mar 17, 2012, 01:11 PM Mar 2012

Really?!1 Oh-really?!1 (SCALIA's vote on health care in play?!1) Meet ya ice skating in Hell.

Besides, if ever SCALIA went one way wouldn't THOMAS be right behind?

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/health-care-liberals-eye-scalia-roberts-vote/story?id=15918156

[font size=5]Health Care: Liberals Eye Scalia and Roberts Vote[/font]

.... Walter Dellinger, former Clinton administration acting solicitor general and a stalwart supporter of the law, has said for months that the decision will be either 7-2 or 8-1.

"I always thought at the end of the day it's going to be upheld, it isn't going to be close and it won't come down to Kennedy," he said in September, during a panel discussion hosted by the American Constitution Society.

Dellinger thinks at least three votes are in play: Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia. ....

"I think he is likely to vote to strike down the individual mandate because it is a new exercise of Commerce Clause power," Fitzpatrick said. "And, in general, he believes that Congress already has too much Commerce Clause power. I think he thinks the mandate is beyond what Congress should be allowed to do." ....

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Really?!1 Oh-*really*?!1 (SCALIA's vote on health care in play?!1) Meet ya ice skating in Hell. (Original Post) UTUSN Mar 2012 OP

Add Thomas. That's 5-4. Add Alito. 4-5, the Individual Mandate goes away. leveymg Mar 2012 #1

I think the Corporate court votes to keep the mandate. It helps their masters Vincardog Mar 2012 #2

The Mandate was a conservative idea to begin with Motown_Johnny Mar 2012 #3

No. All the corporatists want the mandate. woo me with science Mar 2012 #4

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

1. Add Thomas. That's 5-4. Add Alito. 4-5, the Individual Mandate goes away.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 01:34 PM

Mar 2012

I don't anyone should be confident which way this vote is going to turn out. Of course, they could Indict Clarence for his false AR-10 judicial income reports. Just saying.

Vincardog

(20,234 posts)

2. I think the Corporate court votes to keep the mandate. It helps their masters

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Sat Mar 17, 2012, 01:38 PM

Mar 2012

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)

3. The Mandate was a conservative idea to begin with

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Sat Mar 17, 2012, 01:45 PM

Mar 2012

so I have trouble seeing why it would be hard for conservative judges to uphold it.

I would love to see it eliminated as a stand alone clause but I think that is to much to hope for. Odds are the court will uphold the law as written.

I guess we shall see.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

4. No. All the corporatists want the mandate.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sun Mar 18, 2012, 05:34 PM

Mar 2012

That was the goal all along.

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