Is New Health Care Law Unconstitutional?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 26th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Is New Health Care Law Unconstitutional?
Charles Lane, Washington Post
President Obama's signature is barely dry on the health-care bill, but already the legal challenges have begun. Most of them strike me as pretty implausible, with one exception: the complaint that Congress lacks the authority to impose an individual mandate to buy health insurance. To be sure, this claim, too, is a long shot, for reasons that Orin Kerr has articulated pretty well. But let me explain why I don't think it's a total laugher. Congress can regulate activity pursuant to its constitutional power over commerce "among the several states." The Supreme…
Escaping From Poverty
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Before I ask for a drumroll and reveal “the secrets” of fighting poverty, a bit of background: Nicholas D. Kristof Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. For a quarter-century after World War II, the United States made great progress against poverty. Then in the 1970s, we fumbled. Over the last 35 years, our economy has almost tripled in size, but, according to the United States Census Bureau, the number of Americans living below the poverty line has been stuck at roughly 1 in 8.One reason is that wages for blue-collar and…
Reject The Health Care Lawsuits
GOP Hates Pelosi Because She is So Effective
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
It was after the Democrats' loss of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts, when health care seemed dead and Democrats were in a deep funk, that Nancy Pelosi made me a believer. “You can always find a way,” she told the skeptical columnists and pundits gathered in her office. If the election results close one door to reforming the health-care system, you go to the gate; if the gate's locked, you climb over the fence; if it's too high, you pole-vault in; and if that doesn't work, you parachute in. var config = new…
