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Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 12/17/2010 If the White House hoped for a better outcome from the 20-state lawsuit over ObamaCare in Florida than it got this week from the federal court in Virginia, early observations from the arguments may dash those hopes. The Wall Street Journal reports that Judge Roger Vinson expressed considerable skepticism about the […] December 19th, 2010 | Tags: 20-state lawsuit, Commerce Clause, individual mandate, Judge Roger Vinson, Medicaid | Category: Barack Obama, federal mandates, Florida, Health Care, Progressives, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Ann Althouse Althouse 10/7/2010 Here‘s the decision, linked from Politico. How does the judge — George Steeh of the Eastern District of Michigan — deal with the key problem, that Congress is trying to regulate persons who are not engaging in any economic activity? This is the key passage: The plaintiffs have not opted out […] October 7th, 2010 | Tags: Commerce Clause, George Steeh | Category: Congress, Health Care, Michigan, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Robert Pear The New York Times 7/16/2010 WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect […] July 19th, 2010 | Tags: Commerce Clause, individual mandate | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Health Care, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
klsouth Issues & Argument 6/21/2010 Issue In order to protect the new national Health Care law from legal challenges, the Obama administration has been forced to argue that the individual mandate represents a tax — even though Obama himself argued the exact opposite while campaigning to pass the legislation. The HC dispute revolves around the […] June 21st, 2010 | Tags: Commerce Clause, individual mandate | Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Brian Doherty Reason.com November 13, 2009 Tim Cavanaugh was earlier riffing off the 9th amendment’s multiple ideological uses; here’s a report from the 10th Amendment Center on some recent action on the notion that the states and the people have some powers reserved to them from the Feds. Excerpts: In states around the country, there’s […] November 17th, 2009 | Tags: Commerce Clause | Category: 10th Amendment, 9th Amendment | Comments are closed
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