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Later this month on the 26th it's go-time for hearings on the Obamacare in SCOTUS. We won't hear anything for a while, but I'm curious what you guys think about it. What are your predictions or hopes for their ruling? I honestly can't say I have much of a clue what to expect. I don't get a sense that knowledgeable commentators in the media have any good guess either.

The way it seems to me is that it's got to go largely one way or the other. To strike down the mandate but not the rest would just be strange.

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Later this month on the 26th it's go-time for hearings on the Obamacare in SCOTUS.
Is the "individual mandate" is the central issue in this case?

Given that the history of everything else the court allows, I can't see why an "individual mandate" is relatively objectionable. However, since the court is currently Republican, I guess there is a some chance that they will rationalize some objection to the individual mandate along a 5-4 split. I think the chance is very slight, given that the Republican establishment (e.g. Romney and Gingrich) think a mandate is fine, and the judges probably think along similar lines. Of course, the judges will listen to the arguments one way and the other, and it is tough to predict what will move them.

Here are some links from the Freespace blog, by lawyer Timothy Sandefur:

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