Letters,
Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government,
Constitutional Law
Aug. 23, 2011
When it comes to constitutional interpretation — it’s always political
A reader responds to "Health care law should be upheld."
Michael H. Leb
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Leb Dispute Resolutions
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U Michigan Law School
THE NEUTRAL CORNER is a monthly column discussing recent cases or topics of interest from a neutral's perspective.
In his Aug. 17 column "Health care law should be upheld," Professor Erwin Chemerinsky concludes: "If this issue [ObamaCare] had not become so intensely partisan, it would be easy to predict the result in the Supreme Court." Distilled to its essence, Chemerinsky's argument that the individual mandate contained in the legislations is "clearly" constitutional and that only a Republican ideologue could conclude otherwise. Hopefully, the students at UC Irvine, School of Law are not being...
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