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7/1/2012 10:19:56 PM

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Not quite unheard of. It would have been unheard of if SG Verrilli didn't argue for the mandate under the taxing power, but he did. So Roberts accepted the argument. It was sleight of hand.

But this is a case where Democrats were rewarded for intimidating the court, which is a bad precedent.