Scalia’s Ex-Clerk: 65% Chance SCOTUS Overturns ‘Obamacare’ Mandate

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Brian Fitzpatrick, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, weighed in after the Supreme Court health care arguments.

He wrote in an email to TPM:

Scalia is a very likely vote against the mandate, and I’d say there is a 65% chance the five conservatives strike it down.

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