Judge Andrew Napolitano stopped by Fox & Friends Tuesday to share his thoughts on the Supreme Court’s continued look at the health care debate. He characterized the Court’s ruling on the law’s individual mandate as a “surprise” to those who track such things.

“People should remember the statute is 2,700 pages long and there are many other challenges in the court system to other parts of the statute,” he explained. “There are 45 plaintiffs, all religious organizations, many of them Catholic, who have challenged the so-called employer mandate. The employer mandate requires employers to buy health insurance that makes services available that violate the employer’s values like birth control, abortion, euthanasia.”

“So, yesterday,” he continued, “the Supreme Court recognized one of the employer mandate challenges had already made its way to the Federal Appellate court and the Appeals Court said we don’t want to hear this. And, basically, the Supreme Court said we are about to tell the appeals court to hear this. So that it can eventually make its way to us. By doing is, the Supreme Court will rule on this next year rather than three or four years from now.”

He also says there’s a chance that the Court will come up with a different outcome than it did last time. Have a look at his explanation below, via Fox News

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