Timing is all

    

Dahlia Lithwick predicts the Citizens United wing of the Supreme Court will wait for another day:

          They will hear six hours of argument next week. They will pretend it is a fair fight with equally compelling arguments on each side. They will even reach out and debate the merits of the Medicaid expansion, although not a single court saw fit to question it. And then the justices will vote 6-3 or 7-2 to uphold the mandate, with the chief justice joining the majority so he can write a careful opinion that cabins the authority of the Congress to do anything more than regulate the health-insurance market. No mandatory gym memberships or forced broccoli consumption. And then—having been hailed as the John Marshall of the 21^st century—he will proceed to oversee two years during which the remainder of the Warren Court revolution will be sent through the wood chipper.