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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (491016)	6/15/2012 9:17:34 AM
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Which is a far cry from the cocksure predictions of victory made by the PPACA’s defenders during the last two years. “I am quite sure that the health care mandate is constitutional,” Harvard University law professor Charles Fried, a solicitor general in the Reagan administration, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2011. “I would have said [it’s] a no-brainer,” he added with a condescending smirk, “but I mustn’t, with such intelligent brains going the other way.” Other PPACA supporters did not bother to mask their contempt for the legal challenge. “Under existing case law this is a very easy case; this is obviously constitutional,” University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock told The New York Times in a front-page story that ran the very day the Supreme Court wrestled with the constitutional questions raised by the individual mandate. The law’s challengers, Laycock breezily asserted, were “going to lose 8 to 1.” I am eagerly anticipating a period of some serious schadenfreude time with respect to the statements from the Honorable Charles Fried and the Honorable Douglas Laycock.