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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Honest answer: Yes, multiple times. Also, I clerked for a federal appellate judge for a year.
Obama is not arguing the law to them. He is reminding them that a 5-4 decision to strike down the mandate will be seen as a political decision. And it will. You explain to me how Scalia could reconcile Raich with that vote.
Either he convinces the five not to go there, or he mobilizes his voters to get angry when they do. When conservatives keep the story alive, he benefits.
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You are totally off on this. He is not speaking to the court at all (as if they would listen - "after all the briefs, orals and months of thinking about this, we were going to strike it down but now that Obama has reminded us, we changed our mind") - seriously?
His audience is the public and this is his plan B. He is undermining the legitimacy of the court's decision, so he can run against that, rather than having to defend why his primary focus when the world was crumbling was passing an unconstitutional law.
And he got bitch slap by an appellate court judge, which is so beneath him. It was absolutely terrible from a political standpoint.
