The Roots of the Court’s Obamacare Panic

Jonathan Chait: "The last several days of Supreme Court arguments over health care have produced a kind of vertigo among legal analysts who are not associated with the conservative movement. The case against the Affordable Care Act rests upon stringing together selective use of precedent, wildly obtuse understanding of the facts of the issue, and bizarre hypotheticals. The Court has obviously not struck down the law, and it may well not do so, but the mere fact that the Supreme Court has so seriously entertained its convoluted premises itself suggests that something very weird and disturbing is going on."