Estimated time of the decision is 10:15 am EDT, as there are a couple of other decisions to release and it will be a madhouse of reporters and advocates trying to run out of the low-tech court after the release of the decision on the Affordable Care Act.

11:37 EDT Update: Decision  Linque to SCOTUS opinions here.

10:33 EDT Update:

Per Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog, who either has a copy in her hand or is secretly blogging from inside the court:

In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn’t comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.

Classic Muppet Show piece from 1977.

Before we get too excited about SCOTUS striking down most of Arizona’s crazy-pants immigration bill and holding that we shouldn’t have a blanket rule of consigning children to life in prison without parole…the court overturned a century’s old Montana law prohibiting corporations from buying and selling politicians.

[LAT: Supreme Court Ends Montana Ban on Corporate Political Spending]

The jury in the Jerry Sandusky case has told the judge that they have reached a verdict on the 48 charges against Sandusky that he raped and molested 10 different young boys over a 15 year period.

Stay tuned…MSNBC says it may take a while to hear the verdict because the judge won’t let anyone leave or have outside communications until all 48 charges and their verdicts are read.

Updated to include the perp walk out of the courthouse to the waiting police car:

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I think I spotted Dodgerblue making a cameo in this video shot in a West L.A. Whole Paycheck.

Rodney King, whose videotaped savage beating by the LAPD in 1991 sparked riots across the city, was found dead this morning in his pool in his Southern California home. Cause of death unknown.

Sadly, some things never change. LAPD’s response this May at a march for immigrants’ rights:

Damn, what’s a similar action-verb that starts with L and means “gone” so I could have perfect alliteration?

Yeah, I can’t think of something right now. So meanwhile from Stinque’s Dep’t of To Be A Vagina-American Today/Dep’t of Lady-Bits/Dep’t You Have to Be Fucking Kidding Me, I Will Now Return to Book 2 of The Hunger Games and the Giants Baseball Game Before Researching Emigration to New Zealand:

As those wacky feminists at Planned Parenthood put it – “Woman lawmaker banned from speaking after saying ‘vagina'”.. it sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it’s what actually happened today in Michigan’s state legislature.”

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