ObamaCare #1 - A summary of today's High Court debate on ObamaCare.

I would much rather be a conservative,  today,  than on the side of the government.  That might change, tomorrow. 

Jeffery Toobin, a CNN analysit and one who is well thought of on both sides of the aisle,  had this summary statement:    

"This was a train wreck for the Obama administration," he said, echoing the views of many others. Toobin, who also writes for The New Yorker, said that Solicitor General David Verrilli had been outmatched by Paul Clement, the former Solicitor General representing the 26 states that have called for the individual mandate in the law to be nullified.

"This law looks like it's going to be struck down," he said. "I'm telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong.

Toobin added that he thought the government did a terrible job of making the case for ObamaCare.  

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Tom Goldstein,  another liberal (but reasonable) commentator believed the government had a bad day but thought the law would be confirmed.  

Here is Goldstein's comment:  A quick update from the steps. Towards the end of the argument the most important question was Justice Kennedy’s. After pressing the government with great questions Kennedy raised the possibility that the plaintiffs were right that the mandate was a unique effort to force people into commerce to subsidize health insurance but the insurance market may be unique enough to justify that unusual treatment. But he didn’t overtly embrace that. It will be close. Very close.   (SCOTUS Blog) 

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Interest in this subject is so high, today,  that SCOTUS Blog has crashed.  It had 173,000 hits yesterday.  After a telephone conversation with Megyn Kelly at Fox News,  this morning,  his blog went down and I have not be able to access the site for the past two hours.  The owner,  Erica Goldberg,  twitted his apologies.  While on with Kelly,  he thought the government had a very bad day, as well,  but believes the Court's decision will go to the government by a 5-4 vote.  

The general consensus gave a thumbs up for the defendants in today's presentation. 

This does not mean the law will be struck down,  but nearly I have listened to, today,  had made this or a similar comment: