SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON OBAMACARE, IMMIGRATION NEXT WEEK
Media and onlookers crowded around the Supreme Court Thursday morning June 21 in anticipation of a ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's "individual mandate" -- which would require all Americans to purchase health care insurance.
The decision did not come, however, indicating that the high court would hand down its ruling on Obamacare -- and the controversial Arizona SB 1070 -- next week, even as late as Thursday June 28.
The centerpiece of Barack Obama’s first term, the president called the health care law the "most important piece of social legislation since the Social Security Act passed in the 1930s and the most important reform of our health care system since Medicare passed in the 1960s."
The administration had argued that the mandate was constitutional under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause. It also asserted that the mandate was Congress's tax power.
In a recent survey of 58 legal experts, most believed that the court would strike down individual mandate.
