Testing the Limits of Federal Power

Jason Mazzone, New York Times
HENRY E. HUDSON, the federal judge in Virginia who ruled this week that the individual mandate provision of the new health care law is unconstitutional, has become the object of widespread derision. Judge Hudson explained that whatever else Congress might be able to do, it cannot force people to engage in a commercial activity, in this case buying an insurance policy. Critics contend that Judge Hudson has unduly restricted Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce, the principal basis on which the government defends the law. Some also claim that he ignored the...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/12/17/testing_the_limits_of_federal_power_247500.html

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