Brett Kavanaugh Just Agreed The Whole ACA Needn't Be Scrapped

[MontanaFarmer]

13. The law is actually functioning fairly well without the mandate in effect.

Kavanaugh has signaled this in prior cases, as noted in the OP. He's favored the principle of unconstitutional (in his judgment) parts of laws being severable from the rest of the law. This case is ridiculous, there's no way it should have even been heard, and I'd be shocked if they invalidated the entire law. The really silly part is there may be 4 votes in favor of invalidating the law based on this bullshit argument. I suspect Roberts votes to uphold the law as written, that the mandate is constitutional as an exercise of taxing power (he already said this of course), Kavanaugh concurs in upholding the law but states the mandate is unconstitutional, and my other bet is that Clarence Thomas is an idiot.