The final day of healthcare debate at Supreme Court

Things have gone from bad to worse for the Obama administration at the nation's highest court. For the second consecutive day, the court's conservative justices asked the administration's lawyers tough and sometimes hostile questions about the healthcare overhaul widely known as ObamaCare. Yesterday, it looked as if the law's individual mandate was in grave jeopardy. Today, it's the entire law.

  1. Speaking to SCOTUS, Obamacare lawyer warns of "grave" and "profound" consequences if overturned. Yes, like freedom and liberty. #tcot
  2. J. Scalia in favor of striking down entire #ACA if "heart of the law" (individual mandate) is struck down. #severability
  3. Scalia suggests never has been SC case where justices struck down the heart of a law but left the rest in place #SCOTUS #aca #tcot
  4. More judicial restraint to kill entire ACA than just parts of it, Kennedy said. Otherwise Ct must distort Congress's intent. #SCOTUS
  5. If the individual mandate is struck down, the ban on pre-existing condition exclusions has to go too – via @forbes onforb.es/H0GwCz #ACA
  6. Outside the Supreme Court, the passionate debate continued.
  7. New fave chant: "thank you #ACA, #birthcontrol no copay!" The crowd for #healthcare only gets bigger. #herhealth
  8. The debate was fierce on Twitter, too.
  9. Pretty reliable mouthpiece for the White House, foreshadowing attack on Supreme Court if they don't win on Obamacare. politico.com/news/stories/0…
  10. If the SCOTUS Strikes Down #ACA, I Say We Elect the Most Progressive Congress This Country Has Ever Seen & Pass Single-Payer. #OWS #p2
  11. Thank God at least one branch of our government actually knows unconstitutionality when they see it. #whew #dodgingabullet #ACA
  12. If #ACA fails, Repub health care solution is personal responsibility: Get a job on Wall Street; make enough money to pay your own way.
  13. In a great irony, a ruling against "ObamaCare" could actually be a nail in the coffin for Social Security privatization schemes as well...
  14. Sounds like the Left is setting up Verrilli to be the fall guy if / when #Obamacare goes down. They never admit that their policies r Losers
  15. Even Texas Gov. Rick Perry got into the act.

  16. ObamaCare may limp out of the Supreme Court on life support. But the American people will vote it and Obama out of existence this fall.

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