# SCOTUS's decision on The Health Care Law 6/28/12

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**Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotuss-decision-on-the-health-care-law-6-28-12/626499/27 "2012-06-28T11:32:29Z")

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If it is overturned, it will be because the government has failed to articulate any limiting principle for the commerce clause.  
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Nonetheless, l’ll be a pessimist and say upheld, 5-4: Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsberg, Breyer and Roberts. Roberts’ opinion will provide the limiting principle the government’s case failed to; essentially a “here and no further” passage.

> [@Dallas\_Jones](#):
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> 6-3 that the mandate is unconstitutional.
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> Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, Scalia being joined by…Kagan.

If they get to 6 that way, I agree she’d be it.

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