Political Quotes

“as we know, today the Supreme Court began hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the affordable care act. It is one of the most critically important Supreme Court cases of our time. A Wall Street Journal editorial noted last Friday: Few legal cases in the modern era are as consequential, or as defining, as the challenges to [this law]. . . . The powers that the Obama administration is claiming change the structure of the American government as it has existed for 225 years. . . . The Constitutional questions the Affordable Care Act poses are great, novel, and grave. The editorial, entitled ``Liberty and ObamaCare,'' lays out the constitutional problems with the affordable health care act and focuses on the bill's centerpiece: the individual mandate to purchase health insurance. As the editorial notes, the case against this provision is anchored in ample constitutional precedent, and I quote their conclusion: The Commerce Clause that the government invokes to defend such regulation has always applied to commercial and economic transactions, not to individuals as members of society. . . . The Court has never held that the Commerce Clause is an ad hoc license for anything the government wants to do. I urge my colleagues to read this article, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [The Wall Street Journal, Mar.…”