Republicans quickly grabbed on to today’s Supreme Court ruling that the individual mandate is an exercise of the taxing power to claim President Obama broke his promise in 2009 not to raise taxes. As Brian Beutler explains, there’s the political dimension to this argument and the legal dimension — and they are not in perfect alignment.

David Kurtz

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