WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s top lawyer faced aggressive and often skeptical questioning by U.S. Supreme Court justices on March 27 in a sweeping and historic argument over the constitutionality of the nation’s new health care law.

At the end of fast-paced arguments in a courtroom packed with press, politicians and the public, the fate of the controversial so-called individual mandate to buy health insurance seemed to rest with two justices: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justice Anthony Kennedy.

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