That was a beautiful little opinion there!
I only hope that it is upheld on appeal. It should be, at least by the Supreme Court, if not the Fifth Circuit, but you never know with things like this. I can, unfortunately, see it being overturned using the sophistry that since the shared responsibility payment is still technically in there, even though it’s now set to $0, that the individual mandate is therefore still constitutional as a predicate that triggers a tax.
Fingers crossed.
And who, I would like to know, orchestrated this whole affair? There is a certain fineness of legal jujitsu to it that I find attractive.