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Severability is a contract provision - it is not required in legislation. Any judge striking down a provision of a piece of legislation this massive (who didn't want to be immediately overturned*) would be very careful to limit the application of their ruling.

It's a simplistic, Tea Party style logic that would insist a 1000 page bill fails because there aren't "magic words" to save it if one piece turns out to be unconstitutional.

* Judges write 42 page opinions when they are very concerned about being overturned.
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Also, Judge Hudson owns a stake in a consulting firm that worked to thwart healthcare reform. Where are all the people who rabidly complained about judicial bias when it came out that Judge Walker was gay? Or the people who deemed Sotomayor incapable of delivering verdicts because she's proud to be a Latina.
Shenanigans.

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/h…)

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