Yeah just striking the mandate would be an abject disaster. From the line of questioning the justices appeared to wantntomkillmthe whole thing lest the remaining shell be completely unworkable. Hopefully if they kill the mandate the kill the whole thing.
Indeed the questioning leads one to think that.
Oh but to be a Justice, with only a sliver of the whole law to be presented. And to know in your heart the whole of the thing is bad for the country...judicial activism?
To know these facts to be self-evident and unable to rule on them:
1. Law not debated
2. Law was not even read
3. The CBO failed to accurately assess costs & benefits
4. Knowing the law is financially unsustainable
5. And a good Justice hearing the chains of serfdom being readied in the dungeons of socialism
What is a Justice to do? Is it activism if the whole law is struck down? Or is it a reminder to congress, that congressional activism that is not republican in nature, as designed by our Constitution, illegal?