Sunday Reflection: Don’t blame Verrilli: Hard to defend the indefensible

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So last week’s Supreme Court arguments over Obamacare weren’t exactly a smashing success for the Obama administration. How bad was it? Bad enough that Jeffrey Toobin called the event “a train wreck,” Mother Jones called it a “disaster,” and constitutional law professor Ann Althouse, amid terrible reviews of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli’s performance, wondered if Verrilli had taken a dive, deliberately throwing the argument so that the Obama administration would no longer be tied to the increasingly unpopular health care bill.

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