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Opponents of the Affordable Care Act and the Obama Administration really could not have had a better week. They did a tremendous job framing their constitutional argument against the statute to the public, the lawyers on their side were brilliant, and it appears that they had a receptive Supreme Court majority.
After a lunch break, the Court returned at one o’clock yesterday for the final installment of oral argument in the health care challenges. At issue in the afternoon session was the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which expands eligibility for Medicaid, the federal-state partnership that provides health care for the poor.
Oral argument in the health care cases continues to dominate coverage. On Wednesday, the Court heard argument on two issues. In the morning, it considered the severability question: namely, what part, if any, of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) survives if the individual mandate falls.
We’re so grateful to all our readers — old and new — for visiting during the health care arguments. We received just over 800,000 hits, which is more in three days than in the entire first four years of the blog’s existence.
Yesterday, the Court heard the final set of oral arguments in the challenges to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the morning, it considered the severability question – what part, if any, of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) survives if the individual mandate falls – while in the afternoon it heard arguments on the constitutionality of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.
John Elwood reviews Monday’s relisted and held cases. Wow. So many people were looking for Relist Watch on Tuesday that it nearly crashed SCOTUSBlog. Who would have thought my little posts were so popular? I joke, of course (although as usual, you can’t tell because it’s not funny).
In a predictable decision, the Court determined that the limitations period for insider trading claims under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is not as novel as either of the parties advocated and that, instead, it remains subject to traditional equitable tolling analysis as argued by the government.
The audio file below contains what are, in our view, the most important excerpts from this mornings oral argument on the severability of the individual mandate. We will post excerpts from the afternoons argument on Medicaid expansion shortly.
The audio file below contains highlights from todays arguments relating to the Medicaid expansion. Features include a lot more mirth than a typical Supreme Court argument, as well as a summation of the entire case by the Solicitor General.
UPDATED Wednesday 7:05 pm.