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Justiceship, this was the kind of decision he said he wanted to promote. i had an interview with him, he talked to other journalists and he said he felt 5-4 decisions along polarized party lines were terrible for the court. he said he would strife to persuade his colleagues to reach narrow, unanimous opinions. and he said that would be good for court and good for the country. you suggested he had mixed success achieving that. there have been plenty of polarizing 5-4 decisions from the citizens united campaign finance decision to affirmative action, but maybe in this particular case he thought,...

Anything without a mandate. that's number one. number two, the way to fix the mandate's disappearance if they leave all of the ban on preki prekisting conditions is some form of stop loss. stop loss where the federal government comes in and ensures the health insurance companies that after $50,000 of payments in a year, the rest of that payment is shared by the federal government and the insurance companies to some degree. that's a workable plan. what john kerry put forward in 2004. but, of course, you have to figure out a way to pay for it. this is not an easy issue. both candidates have to b...

Often considered the swing vote, writing the decision today, joined by three of the court's liberals. ruth bader ginsburg, stephen breyer and sonia sotomayor. and justice roberts, one of the court's more conservative justices. the three other conservatives consented, that makes eight. elena kagan the ninth sat this out because she worked this case when she was with the justice department. you have to wonder, why was justice roberts there and it may be that, you know, interesting note here, because there were only eight justices if this were a 4-4 split, the decision wouldn't count. the lower c...

Have passed in other states? >> as an immediate matter, not at all. because there are various provisions of those laws that have also been challenged bit obama justice department. they're also in various forms, working their way through the lower courts. you know, i think that the real question there is politically what difference will it make? the advocates of the laws, will they say, see, we won a partial victory, that's enough. or will they consider this a warning to trim their laws back and it is too soon to tell. >> do you see any way to look at this decision today and be able to look ahe...