The case before the Supreme Court could have thrown the Affordable Care Act into the ditch. Instead, Obamacare was kept alive and well by a vote of 6 to 3, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the four liberals, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.
This is the vote I had predicted following oral arguments, but I was afraid to hope for such a rational solution. Predictably by his past behavior, Justice Scalia was apoplectic in his dissent; on the other hand, if one predicted, based on a past decision of his in which he considered the context of the whole law in reading an ambiguous sentence, he clearly should have voted to uphold this law.
Ralph
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