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Today. karl rove with us now. we brought you in to talk about other things. this is breaking news. lets get your immediate reaction with clarence thomas joining the majority on this, karl. >> this was likely to happen because of whats called the severability clause. affordable care act was written where it said if some part of this is struck down the rest of the law remains. and thats exactly what happened. the part of the law that had to do with a penalty, tax if you will was no longer being en...

It was unfair then and if you look at this, she voted to uphold obamacare. >> she did. she voted not to breach the issue. there was no standing. if you listen closely to justice barrett during her confirmation hearings what she said she thought the case was about the issue of severability. she tell graphed during her confirmation she would not vote to strike down all of obamacare. im not surprised by this. >> dana: this case out of philadelphia where a catholic charity was saying it was against ...

Decide this is not severable. theres no reason to do it. >> are you confident in the appeals process this will not go any further? >> no, i am not confident. previous cases on the affordable care act has all been clearly by an objective standard easy wins, and yet they passed by the skin of their teeth. constitutional experts in 2012 by an 80 to 90% margin said the mandate was unconstitutional, and the supreme court found it was not. the supreme court does care about the opinion of the american ...

Now. bill: our fox polling came in yesterday afternoon, some of the findings were fascinating. 49% surveyed oppose the new law still to this law and 39% favor it. 60% believe the individual mandate that we just talked about to buy insurance is a violation of individual rights. >> reporter: thats interesting those polls have not changed since april of 2010. the severability clause is interest nothing this case and will determine whether the court decides to throw the whole bill out or not, and th...

I say could because they dont necessarily have to, but i want to let viewers see the possibilities right now. regarding the issues that are before the supremes. number one is this anti-injunction act which goes back to the 1870s. can a taxation provision prevent a court challenge until the law was fully in effect which means can you rule on a tax before the tax is applied if you define this penalty defined as a tax or not? thats number one. number two deals with the commerce clause, can congress...

Want by and large the obama bill to pass in the first place, they will be back here immediately saying we have to fix these other pieces of it because you cant just force us to cover people when they get sick. we have to do something to meet the economics. >> i still dont know how the supreme court can throw out just the plan date without a severability clause in the statute to throw out the whole thing. but i dont know. they may uphold it, i have no idea. they get to do exactly what they want, ...