The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that President Obama’s ambitious health care reform mostly survived a constitutional challenge, with the heart of the law—the individual mandate—passing muster as a tax.

After the third day of arguments over the Obama administration’s 2010 health care law, it seemed more sure than ever that the Supreme Court will eliminate the individual mandate, and possibly the entire law.

At the U.S. Supreme Court today, justices seemed to cast skepticism on President Obama’s health care reform law. And as usual, it looks like it will be left to Anthony Kennedy to cast the deciding vote.

Some people wait in line for concert tickets. Others for food, or the newest generation of Apple products. But Kathie McClure and Monica Haymond are among the people that have lined up outside the Supreme Court, hoping to get into the hearings starting today on President Obama’s health care reform law.

A poster at a Metrorail station isn’t mincing words in advertising a documentary opposing the 2010 health care law. A member of Congress from Northern Virginia wants to see it taken down.

Good morning, Washington. Freedom Plaza may be a little crowded this morning as antiwar and anti-Wall Street protesters make room for Mayor Vince Gray to kick off the D.C. Full Democracy Freedom Rally and March, planned to coincide with this weekend’s official dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial.

Photo by LaTur The New York Times has started posting all the Senate Republican amendments to the health care reform bill, and, surprise, surprise, one of them concerns the District of Columbia’s same-sex marriage law:Bennett amendment: To protect the Democratic process and the right of the people of the District of Columbia to define marriage. (#3568)That’d be Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, of course, and we understand that he has the support of Senators…

Sen. Max Baucus UPDATE 4:35 p.m. We’re now hearing the substance has been deemed harmless, and Baucus’s office has reopened. The Associated Press is reporting that authorities are investigating a suspicious package of the unidentified white powder variety that was delivered to the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.). An Associated Press photographer at the scene, in the Hart Senate Office Building, heard officers say there was a threatening note with the package. Schneider…

This is the picture of a Town Hall Meeting on health-care reform hosted by D.C.’s non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives, Eleanor Holmes Norton. No offensive signs. No angry shouting. No vaguely racist mob clamoring to get inside. At recent health-care town halls hosted by other area congressmembers, like the one Rep. Jim Moran held last month, theatrics have been the order of the day. Far right-leaning protesters, suspicious of seemingly any Democratic policy…

Normally we wouldn’t care about something like this much, but this is the District’s representative in Congress we’re talking about here. Nope, not D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, but Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-D.C.Texas). During President Obama’s Wednesday night speech on health care, Gohmert managed not to violate age-old rules of congressional decorum, though he did spend the better part of the speech waving a sign that said “What Bill” on one side and “What Plan”…