Supreme Court to strike down individual mandate

[yankeefan98121]

I thought that because of the way the bill was written, it cannot stand if part of it is stricken down? So the whole bill would fail?

That's how I understood it as well

Either way it's just an insider poll and not official

[68Charger]

keep in mind, this is a poll of people that USED to work for some SC justices...

wait for the real decision to come down.

[Sharpienads]

That's how I understood it as well

Yeah, me too. However, the way I understand the Constitution, this bill should have never been written, passed, or signed into law. So who knows what could happen.

It seems pretty simple to me: the individual mandate is definitely unconstitutional, there's no severability clause, so strike down the entire law. If SCOTUS just finds one part unconstitutional but lets the rest of the bill stand without a severability clause, how would that be any different from a line item veto, which SCOTUS ruled unconstitutional in Clinton v. City of New York?