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Conservative position, perhaps ready to declare the original mandate of the president's bill unconstitutional? >> no. look, i expect justice to see ask tough questions of both sides, and in the appellate courts, conservative judges asked really tough questions of the government and then ruled in favor of the government, in favor of the original mandate. favor of the individual mandate. so i'm not surprised, and pete williams did talk about justice kennedy's remarks at the end where he did express that this is perhaps a unique market and came up with his own limiting principles. so i expected t...

Just the extension or possible flexibility of the interstate commerce clause but more fundamental the inherent question of what our constitution is all about. talking about this would change the bill, this would change the basic relationship between government and citizen. is that your argument, that this is so fundamental it can't be done here under our constitution? this is really changing things in this country. >> that is the argument. that is why you see thousands of people gathered around the united states supreme court building protesting today, and for two years prior to today, because...

History has congress imposed a mandate that people go out and purchase something. the commerce clause has not been used in that way, and so the question the court raised today that the government was unable to answer is to establish that line of demar cation that would limit this. >> here is justice kennedy pointing out forcing the mandate for people that might not do it on their own. let's listen to that. >> here the government is saying that the federal government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act, and that is different from what we have in previous cases and that ch...

Liberal catholics were pilling to say the federal government has a right to do what it does in these cases. they control health policy. under interstate commerce clause. there they go. here's tim kaine, one of the many democrats caught in the middle of this. he's a former chairman of the democratic national committee. he's running in a very tight race in virginia for the united states senator. he pointed to some of the problems in that rule, but now he supports the president's latest iteration of it which was announced today. let's listen to governor kaine. >> my only concern was that a o' chu...

To put their imprint on birth control, but liberal catholics were willing to say the federal government has a right to do what it does in these cases. they control health policy. under interstate commerce clause. there they go. here's tim kaine, one of the many democrats caught in the middle of this. he's a former chairman of the democratic national committee. he's running in a very tight race in virginia for the united states senator. he pointed to some of the problems in that rule, but now he supports the president's latest iteration of it which was announced today. let's listen to governor ...