rivkin. i'm going to start with you, neera, and kind of get the response to that. mr. reagan, let me give you a closing that he said are those of you also who were not able to hear his comments, you know, he doesn't really paltry punches. he said the law core constitutional pretzels of dual sovereignty. there's no limiting principle, and neera i know you've heard this before, but if congress can do this they can tell you you've got to go by broccoli and a gym membership. he said that this basically is h.r. and redefinition of the constitutional vision of u.s. citizenship. it rips out whole clauses of the united state's constitution. so i think what he was really trying to say is, he thinks that this law is unconstitutional. [laughter] >> now, obviously these issues are complex, tenth amendment, congressional power. let's focus on those big ones. there are other issues i think that are still in play, but most of the focus where the rubber meets the road is why the congress exceeded its authority when it passed this legislation, and specifically at the end -- the individ

mr. rivkin says he's optimistic and he thinks the court will strike us down.nd maybe your optimistic they will uphold it. -this is just one of those that we have no idea what the supreme court is going to do. and they may well not know but i don't know. i know you out to respond to neera but i also want to get your thoughts on whether or not you see any clues what you make of justice scalia's concurring opinion in their raich? does that by tim? he goes into necessary proper clause in that decision and justice kennedy was also on the majority in the raich? do you see any clues on how this court to approach these issues and come out? please answer that. i know you have speeded i don't see any clues because since the raich the roberts court has not had any enumerated powers? that is on all fours with morrison. and so we haven't had any true? that will give us an insight into that. the closest perhaps we can do that is the big campaign finance case in which the conservatives on the court held their own, drawing a blank on the name of it now. citizens united of cou