Obama Shifts Healthcare Defense to ‘Necessary & Proper’ Clause
The Obama administration has shifted its legal arguments as it prepares to defend the president’s healthcare law before the Supreme Court. Written briefs in the landmark case increasingly have focused on a part of the Constitution that didn’t get much attention in lower courts. Some legal experts say the shift could steer the case in a direction that would make Justice Antonin Scalia more likely to uphold the healthcare law’s mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance. The justices are expected to give a ruling in June. A ruling that the mandate is unconstitutional could make it nearly impossible to implement other parts of the healthcare law — which is exactly the point the Dept. of Justice is highlighting in its most recent briefs. The DoJ has aggressively defended the mandate as its own regulation of economic activity, but is now stepping up a separate argument emphasizing that the mandate is part of a broader regulatory scheme. The shift moves the focus of the DoJ’s argument from the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to the Necessary & Proper Clause, which says Congress can make laws that are necessary for carrying out its other powers.
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