Editor’s Note: After this morning’s Supreme Court session, the justices began a two-week recess. During that period, it is a safe bet they will be reading a lot of briefs — the number will exceed 150 — about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the historic health care reform law passed by Congress in 2010. The four issues the Court has agreed to consider — jurisdiction, individual mandate, severability and Medicaid expansion — will be argued over three days beginning March 26. Beginning with today’s edition, Supreme Court Insider will feature each issue in turn, looking at the arguments on both sides, as well as the lawyers who will appear before the Court. We are starting off with the issue the Court will hear first, on March 26: the jurisdictional question under the Anti-Injunction Act that asks whether the Court can even rule on the challenges to the health care law.
Close to noon on March 26, the first day of history-making arguments in the health care cases, journalists will emerge from the Supreme Court to breathlessly report on what the justices and advocates said about — the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA.)
