"The whole law is ridiculous".
He added: "The whole law is flawed.
Republicans have voted repeatedly to repeal the whole law.
Could that portion be separated, or would the whole law have to be thrown out?
The whole law, she said, was "an appropriate response to pervasive discriminatory treatment of pregnant women".
A facial challenge asks the Court to throw out the whole law.
If the conservative justices have any integrity, they will strike down the whole law, not just section 3.
Striking down the whole law, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested, would be too broad an assertion of judicial power.
On Monday, Mr. Obama rejected the idea that the individual mandate could be struck down without crippling the whole law.
But we can imagine cases in which this law could be unconstitutional, and therefore, the whole law is unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, the law's supporters won't amend the law, the consultant said, because they fear opponents would use the bill to derail the whole law.
