Call it the main event: after a day puzzling over whether Obamacare’s fines on those who don’t buy insurance constitute a tax or a penalty—an important threshold issue, to be sure, but one that hasn’t quite captured the public’s imagination—the Court today will hear oral argument regarding one of the most important issues before it in 65 years: whether the Constitution empowers Congress to require that virtually all Americans purchase or obtain health insurance coverage. The answer to that question will determine whether the federal Leviathan truly remains a government … More
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By Ilya Shapiro
With the scheduled three days of oral argument six weeks away, Cato filed its fourth and final Supreme Court amicus brief in the Obamacare saga, this time on the most critical issue: the constitutionality of the individual mandate. Alongside Pacific Legal Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, 14 other organizations, and a bipartisan group of 333 state [...]
Cato’s Final Obamacare Brief — on the Individual Mandate — Joined by 16 Other Groups and 333 State Legislators is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
Back in June, I wrote about a law review article I had just completed that detailed my first year or so of activities surrounding the Obamacare lawsuits. Well, now it’s officially published, in the Florida International University Law Review. Here’s the abstract: This article chronicles the (first) year I spent opposing the constitutionality of Obamacare: [...]
Published: My First Year Battling Obamacare is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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