{"id":476973,"date":"2010-03-26T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/26\/is-new-health-care-law-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:32:18","slug":"is-new-health-care-law-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/476973","title":{"rendered":"Is New Health Care Law Unconstitutional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/25\/is_new_health_care_law_unconstitutional_231500.html\" >Is New Health Care Law Unconstitutional? \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Charles Lane, Washington Post<br \/>President Obama&apos;s signature is barely dry on the health-care bill, but already the legal challenges have begun. Most of them strike me as pretty implausible, with one exception: the complaint that Congress lacks the authority to impose an individual mandate to buy health insurance. To be sure, this claim, too, is a long shot, for reasons that Orin Kerr has articulated pretty well. But let me explain why I don&apos;t think it&apos;s a total laugher. Congress can regulate activity pursuant to its constitutional power over commerce &quot;among the several states.&quot; The Supreme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/25\/escaping_from_poverty_231523.html\" >Escaping From Poverty \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Nicholas Kristof, New York Times<br \/>Before I ask for a drumroll and reveal &#8220;the secrets&#8221; of fighting poverty, a bit of background: Nicholas D. Kristof   Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. For a quarter-century after World War II, the United States made great progress against poverty. Then in the 1970s, we fumbled. Over the last 35 years, our economy has almost tripled in size, but, according to the United States Census Bureau, the number of Americans living below the poverty line has been stuck at roughly 1 in 8.One reason is that wages for blue-collar and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/25\/reject_the_health_care_lawsuits_231505.html\" >Reject The Health Care Lawsuits \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/25\/gop_hates_pelosi_because_she_is_so_effective_231521.html\" >GOP Hates Pelosi Because She is So Effective \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Eleanor Clift, Newsweek<br \/>It was after the Democrats&apos; loss of Ted Kennedy&apos;s Senate seat in  Massachusetts, when health care seemed dead and Democrats were in a deep  funk, that Nancy Pelosi made me a believer. &#8220;You can always find a  way,&#8221; she told the skeptical columnists and pundits gathered in her  office. If the election results close one door to reforming the  health-care system, you go to the gate; if the gate&apos;s locked, you climb  over the fence; if it&apos;s too high, you pole-vault in; and if that doesn&apos;t  work, you parachute in.\t\t\tvar config = new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is New Health Care Law Unconstitutional? Charles Lane, Washington PostPresident Obama&apos;s signature is barely dry on the health-care bill, but already the legal challenges have begun. Most of them strike me as pretty implausible, with one exception: the complaint that Congress lacks the authority to impose an individual mandate to buy health insurance. To be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}