In a stunning victory for the Obama Administration, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the centerpiece of the nation’s new healthcare law the so-called individual mandate to buy insurance as a constitutional exercise of Congress’ taxing authority.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., who wrote the Court’s opinion, secured the majority on the tax issue by joining with his more liberal colleagues justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.