Never Before - NYTimes.com

Freeing herself from the false equivalence trap, legal autodidact Linda Greenhouse, formerly Times Supreme Court reporter and now at Yale law School, lays bare the conceptually thin but superficially appealing attack on the "individual mandate" in the Affordable Care Act - set for oral argument this week. - GWC
Never Before - NYTimes.com:
by Linda Greenhouse
"Free of convention, and fresh from reading the main briefs in the case to be argued before the Supreme Court next week, I’m here to tell you: that belief is simply wrong. The constitutional challenge to the law’s requirement for people to buy health insurance — specifically, the argument that the mandate exceeds Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause — is rhetorically powerful but analytically so weak that it dissolves on close inspection. There’s just no there there."

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