A major and surprisingly unequivocal victory. Roberts and Kennedy aren't heroes for rejecting what should have been laughed out of court, but in the political universe we do live in.
A commenter observed that I didn't really address the substance of a Jon Chait post about what would happen should the Supreme Court wreck most of the health care exchanges..
Anti-ACA fanaticism: hackery all the way down.
You may have seen Will Baude's op-ed arguing that Obama could just ignore a Supreme Court ruling that providing subsidies on the federally established exchanges for everyone but the four.
As I recently noted, Brian Beutler has an excellent piece pointing out that Republican members of Congress universally rejected the contention soon to be considered by the Supreme Court that.
Orrin Hatch argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2010 that the ACA's requirement that states set up exchanges "is not a condition for receiving federal funds." Ian Millhiser.
It would be way too off-brand not to cover this, so it's worth pointing out that while fortunately it ended up not mattering Sam Holbrook's interference call in Game 6.
A 5CA panel appears ready and willing to use farcically stupid arguments to strike down most or all of the Affordable Care Act: The Republicans, by contrast, came to court.
