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To: DMaA who wrote (405460)1/20/2011 11:40:26 AM
From: FJB1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793990
 
I don't think it is close.

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In the most recent of the three rulings, Florida federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson wrote that the government's claim that the mandate is clearly authorized by existing Supreme Court precedent is "not even a close call." He points out that "[t]he power that the individual mandate seeks to harness is simply without prior precedent," because no previous Supreme Court decision ever authorized Congress to force ordinary citizens to buy products they did not want.

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To: DMaA who wrote (405460)1/20/2011 2:24:55 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793990
 
Strange things have happened, but I don't see how the Supreme Court will rule it's within the confines of the Constitution to put someone in jail for not buying health insurance.


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