Do all these attorneys general suing to block health care reform on constitutional grounds have a leg to stand on? Twenty years ago the answer would have been a flat, no. Today there’s a thread of jurisprudence that gives them a colorable argument, but most of the conservative legal scholars whom we have spoken with say it’s still very unlikely that the health insurance mandate in the new law will be deemed unconstitutional.
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March 23, 2010 8:46 a.m.
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