Quoting: In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn't comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.

I actively dislike chat. It's just not my favorite medium of communication. I'll use it with my brother sometimes, but just...no. Not my thing.

I don't use it at all for personal communications. Only work.

Link to the opinion: [link]

We have chat at work and we pretty much use it for personal stuff. Lunch dates, cat video links.... It does keep it out of email.

I think I would like chat because it is not email! I have grown to Hate email. There is too much of it, it is overwhelming, and people do not understand each other well.

The votes:

ROBERTS, C. J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, and III–C, in which GINSBURG, BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined; an opinion withrespect to Part IV, in which BREYER and KAGAN, JJ., joined; and an opinion with respect to Parts III–A, III–B, and III–D. GINSBURG, J., filed an opinion concurring in part, concurring in the judgment in part,and dissenting in part, in which SOTOMAYOR, J., joined, and in whichBREYER and KAGAN, JJ., joined as to Parts I, II, III, and IV. SCALIA, KENNEDY, THOMAS, and ALITO, JJ., filed a dissenting opinion. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion.

I refer to my email as my brain. Without the archives of my inbox, I'd be seriously screwed. Which is part of why I don't like chat for work: the lack of documentation. I'm pretty ruthless about deleting the personal and/or one-off scheduling emails.

I love having chat at work because it means I almost never have to use the phone.

The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional.

That is WONDERFUL.

Which is part of why I don't like chat for work: the lack of documentation.

Oh, our chat sessions are saved in Outlook just like emails (we use MS Messenger and the chats all go to an Outlook folder called Conversations).

Sparky,

one of my friends went to undergrad with Sotomayor. I just dropped my friend a note about the decision.

Thank you for explaining to those of us without a JD!

sarameg,

my email is like that as well. my email connected to followupthen is like having a another brain for real. I bought Omnifocus because I think I need the next level of organization.