After Three Days of Arguments, How Do You Think the Court Will Rule on Obamacare?
Paul Clement, the attorney representing the 26 states challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, talks to the news media outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the third day of oral arguments over the constitutionality of the act March 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Yesterday concluded the last of three days of the Supreme Court's oral arguments over healthcare reform. The six hours of hearings over three days constituted the longest set of opening oral arguments before the Court in the last 45 years.
On the second day of proceedings, we asked if readers thought the healthcare law's individual mandate is constitutional. 77% said yes, only 22% said no. But a lot has happened since then. Many surprises and twists later, how does the case seem now?
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David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.
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