Follow the Supreme Court arguments in the Obamacare case

The U.S. Supreme Court gets a second shot at the Affordable Care Act this morning, with arguments set to start any minute in King v. Burwell.

If you were hoping to catch the arguments via live stream, well, you can’t. That’s because the nation’s highest court still does not allow cameras in the courtroom.

A number of open government organizations are taking advantage of the public interest in this case to make their case for the need of live coverage there, via the public announcement below.

In the meantime, some media outlets will be having reporters shuttling in and out of the courtroom with reports on the questioning and we’ll be posting some of those here as we see them.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asking about standing of challengers to sue, per Wall Street Journal live blog:

Here’s the mid-argument update from SCOTUSblog:

Justices move from standing to questions about reading the statute literally — as challengers ask — and the problems with that.  More from SCOTUSblog:

From Election Law Blog’s Rick Hasen:

Here’s what Justice Anthony Kennedy was asking, per SCOTUSblog update:

Questioning going overtime:

Plenty of questioning on the merits means likely no ruling based upon lack of standing, says SCOTUSblog:

Justice Kennedy pushed government lawyer Michael Carvin, asking if “pressuring” states into creating their own exchanges is problematic. His response, per WSJ:

Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor jump in, per WSJ:

Questioning of the Solicitor General, arguing in favor of the reading that subsidies were availalbe under either exchange, wasn’t much easier. Per SCOTUSblog:

Arguments have ended.  Here’s a few post-game predictions from legal experts and court watchers:

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