[I]n the end, based on the entire mix of information I have, I think the mandate will not be struck down tomorrow.\u00a0 (Neither I, nor anyone else, has any inside information.)\u00a0 My prediction includes the possibility that there will not be a single majority opinion for the theory on which the mandate is upheld, and even the thin possibility that the Court will not have a majority to find the mandate constitutional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As to the other major ObamaCare questions before the Court, Goldstein predicts:<\/p>\n
Far less important, I expect the principal opinion will be written by the Chief Justice; a majority of the Court will find it has jurisdiction; and the challenge to the Medicaid expansion will be rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Goldstein does acknowledge that most Supreme Court observers disagree with his prediction and that his own confidence in\u00a0it “isn\u2019t overwhelming.”\u00a0 Coming from such a well-respected and brilliant legal mind,\u00a0Goldstein’s prediction isn’t reassuring either.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s to hoping that\u00a0Goldstein is misreading this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tom Goldstein, who has argued 25 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, bucks conventional wisdom with his latest prediction\u00a0regarding the High Court’s ObamaCare ruling tomorrow.\u00a0 Over at SCOTUSblog, a site he co-founded, Goldstein writes: [I]n the end, based on the entire mix of information I have, I think the mandate will not be struck down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311,35,3667,92,3666],"class_list":["post-14823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-scotusblog","tag-supreme-court","tag-tom-goldstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14827,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions\/14827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}