Yesterday, we endured an esoteric debate over a jurisdictional statute that practically no one expects to actually affect the Supreme Court’s review of Obamacare. Today, by contrast, was the argument we’ve all been waiting for: the challenge to the constitutional merits of Obamacare’s individual mandate.

There already has been a tidal wave of reporting, commentary, and predictions. (Among straight news reporting, I recommend SCOTUSblog‘s Lyle Denniston, National Law Journal‘s Marcia Coyle, and the Washington Post‘s Robert Barnes.) But there are a few points to add or amplify: