I think he knows the vote and he wins. Then he’ll say the court voted the way he “advised” them to vote. He’s just so damned smart, you know.
“Then he’ll say the court voted the way he “advised” them to vote.”
It is that smug, threatening atitude that will cause the Supremes to land on his ass like an avalanche. They don’t like to be intimidated.
Although I can certainly understand that reasoning, I tend to disagree. I am more inclined to believe that a straw vote was taken in April, and it was in opposition to the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Probably 5-4.
Whether all of ObamaCare might be struck down (as seems reasonable to me, given the law's almost ostentatious lack of a so-called "severability clause"), or only part of it is given the heave-ho, in that event, remains to be seen. (But if the mandatory purchase of insurance is struck down--as I believe is very likely--it is hard to see, as a practical matter, what funding mechanism might be left to keep the rest of the law intact.)