10:25 I'm trying to figure out the deal with the health care ruling. The NYT seems to think that the health care act is constititional, but they are being wishy washy about it. What's the deal? 

10:28 CNN gets the headline wrong.

10:29 "Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A under the taxing power" Robert switched sides.

10:31 Erin Gloria Ryan ‏@morninggloria Roberts is the Severus Snape of the Supreme Court.

10:34 "The Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness," – Roberts

10:39 And here's what Nora Ephron thinks about food. (This is Scotus blogging ADD-style.) 

10:42 Nate Silver ‏@fivethirtyeight No, court's decision is NOT good news for Romney. But not hugely bad news for him either. Preserves the status quo.

 10:46 Mike sends me the summary from SCOTUSblog: 

The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn't comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.

 10:50 Must check out SCOTUSblog live blogging the decision. 

10:52 Sarah Palin ‏@SarahPalinUSA Obama lied to the American people. Again. He said it wasn't a tax. Obama lies; freedom dies.

11:55 Romney is speaking. Will overturn it.