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[CENTER][CENTER]Justices Ponder Striking Down Entire Obamacare Package[/CENTER][/CENTER]
The Supreme Court's conservative justices are hinting that they might strike down Obamacare because declaring the individual mandate unconstitutional would require nullifying the entire law.
"The court's conservatives said the law was passed as a package and must fall as a package," the Los Angeles Times reported.
Although the court is expected to rule by late June on the fate of the President Obama's signature legislation, Justice Antonin Scalia suggested even as the high court was hearing arguments that the decision might be a fait accompli.
"One way or another, Congress will have to revisit it in toto," Scalia said.
Similarly, Justice Anthony Kennedy said it would be an "extreme proposition" to permit the varied insurance regulations to remain if the mandate were struck down.
On the other hand, the court's liberal justices urged caution. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the court should do a "salvage job" instead of a "wrecking operation."
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito Jr. echoed Scalia and Kennedy's view that the law should stand or fall in total. They and Justice Clarence Thomas would have a majority to quash the entire law.
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