The Supreme Court today agreed to hear challenges to the Affordable Care Act.
“Most but not all Supreme Court experts predict — some very confidently, some cautiously — that the Court will uphold the law. The Supreme Court’s four liberals are certain to uphold the law. They would need only one more vote to prevail. While Justice Clarence Thomas seems a sure vote to strike the law down, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito are harder to call.”
This will be momentous. Anyone interested in doing whatever it takes to be there for the oral arguments (the Justices set aside a special 5 1/2 hour session -more than five times the length of a usual hearing- which will probably take place in March) let me know. I’ve tried three times so far to witness an oral argument, and I always show up too late in the morning when the line already stretches around the block. Not this time.
