A district court judge in Virginia ruled in December that the individual mandate in the national health care law is unconstitutional. Despite the lack of a “severability clause,” that judge ruled that the rest of Obamacare was constitutional (whether or not Obamacare would be functional without the mandate is another question).

Now a district court judge in Florida named Roger Vinson has ruled that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, and thus so is the entire law. Here’s Vinson on why the entire act is unconstitutional if one part of it is unconstitutional:

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