Liberal and conservators voter will be reignited depending on the court's ruling.

Justices asked two dozen questions in just a half hour in the Washington courtroom, speaking so rapidly they sometimes cut off one another, reported ABC7 News/ The Associated Press.

The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, considered a center-piece achievement to the Obama Administration when it was passed by Congress in 2010.  Twenty-six states are challenging the legality of the act, which will mandate Americans to have health care or pay a fine.

Justices have allotted six hours to hear the case, the most time the court has given to a single case since the Civil Rights Movement.  A record 136 amicus briefs were filed for the case, further signifying the importance of the hearing.

The court will also release audio recordings of the proceedings the same day of the hearing. The first time the court released recordings so rapidly was the 2000 Bush election case and the last was Citizens United v.  Federal Elections Committee, both considered legal landmarks.

The ruling of the case will have great political implications, as the justices will likely present their opinion in June near the end of their session, just in time for the presidential elections.
 
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum was on the steps of the Supreme Court Monday.  He used the Supreme Court as a backdrop for a press conference.

"This bill has far-reaching consequences for the economic health of this country and for basic liberty in our society," Santorum said. "There's one candidate in this race who can actually make the contrast that is necessary."

If the court upholds the law, GOP conservatives will likely be reignited to support their candidate against Obama. The law is considered by the right wing to be an overreaching by the president and Congress into state rights. Simultaneously, Obama’s credibility as a constitutional scholar and president would be reaffirmed.

If the court strikes down the law, liberals will be reignited in a new debate on how to reform the health care system. The GOP argument that a Republican candidate must be elected to repeal the law would no longer be valid.

Monday’s hearings have ended, but the court still needs to consider the main issue—the constitutionality of the individual mandate of the law.

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