If you’re interested in the severability of Section 5000A from the rest of the PPACA and would like a refreshingly clear-headed take on severability doctrine generally, check out Sense and Severability, the remarks of Tobias Dorsey at the University of Richmond Law Review’s 2011 Allen Chair Symposium, “Everything but the Merits: Analyzing the Procedural Aspects of the Health Care Litigation.” Dorsey’s prediction from last November seems even more prescient today than when made:
[I]f we get to severability, I see a two-way split much like the two-way split in Booker, with the Chief Justice and Justice Kennedy joining the three more conservative Justices in holding the mandate unconstitutional, and the Chief Justice and Justice Kennedy joining the four more liberal Justices in taking the Solicitor General‘s point of view.
