Supreme Court hearing: Affordable Health Care Act
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Supreme Court weighs all-or-nothing on healthcare law
The fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul will be on the line on Wednesday when the Supreme Court considers whether the entire law must fall without its centerpiece insurance mandate.
Completing three days of historic arguments, the nine justices will hear arguments on whether the rest of the law, Obama's signature domestic accomplishment, can survive should the court decide Congress exceeded its powers by requiring all Americans buy insurance by 2014.
The Obama administration faced skeptical questioning on Tuesday from the court's five-member conservative majority on the insurance requirement. But it was unclear whether it would strike it down or let it stand.
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FASCINATING minute-by-minute, behind-the-scenes account of this morning's oral arguments, by @jamiedupree t.coby Ethan Klapper via twitter 3/28/2012 12:36:56 PM -
A lawyer discovered how far the U.S. Supreme Court will go to close itself off from the public when it hears a case, no matter how many people on Twitter may be interested.
Casey Mattox went to the court on Tuesday to see historic arguments over whether to strike down the Obama administration's healthcare law.
His plan was to give live updates and the idea appeared to work as descriptions from the arguments showed up on the Twitter feed of the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group where Mattox is a senior counsel.
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Here are the transcripts from the previos two days of hearing on the Affordable Care Act -- today's transcript is expected to be released sometime after noon:
March 26th transcript
March 27th transcript -
NBC's Chuck Todd believes the White House thinks they might get 6-3 support for the Affordable Health Care act, down from 7-2.
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Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein suggests the White House may have made a stronger argument for the Affordable Care Act if they had sent Ronald Reagan's solicitor general to argue their case. Klein used this blog article in his argument.
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