Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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10. Ginsburg Cracks Wise

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/ginsburg-predicts-sharp-disagreement-ahead-of-supreme-courts-high-profile-cases.php

"Ginsburg cracked a joke about the health care case and the individual mandate. “If the individual mandate, requiring the purchase of insurance or the payment of a penalty, if that is unconstitutional, must the entire act fall?” she said, then offering up the alternative to throwing out the whole law because of the mandate. “Or, may the mandate be chopped, like a head of broccoli, from the rest of the act?”

Would Ginsburg joke this way if either path had been decided? With the court's tight secrecy policy, I doubt it. I think Ginsburg was engaged in some wishful thinking...

I'm calling it in favor of the law, with a conservative majority ruling.