[PAA-Discuss] FW: American Constitution Ssociety Responds to Fla. Health Care Ruling

[Lee Loe]

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ACS Experts Respond to Fla. Health Care Ruling

Make Your Voice Heard

 

A range of ACS experts reacted to yesterday's Florida District Court
decision to strike down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, calling the
ruling an "astonishing" deviation from decades of settled law that is likely
to be overturned and that has little precedential value.

During a press
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jSL8Mc6uqm388h8qrmis_lL4-fE_DDpEDS> call hosted by the American Constitution
Society and the Center for American Progress, ACS Board of Advisors member
and former solicitor general Walter E. Dellinger, Washington & Lee law
professor Timothy Jost and CAP Chief Operating Officer Neera Tanden
admonished the sweeping scope of U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson's decision
to strike down the entire health care reform law. Judge Vinson, a Reagan
appointee, held that the individual coverage provision of the law was
unconstitutional, and that it was not severable from the remainder of the
statute. 

 

"The idea that Congress lacks the authority to regulate [the health care
industry] is a truly astonishing proposition," Dellinger said during the
call.

Following yesterday's decision, Simon
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of the ACS Issue
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qrhKxqQwYpfKc6GoX6eBfRDXKXLy6UFSIsZQReoTyvjjyTYa0QyRdcT0SPdpfKCNeGK7Kjs2PjVo
0Xj371XV4wQ0o4kp6Sho4QDUPy_c2majgsWluZ9_hxvt29> Brief, "Mandatory Health
Insurance: Is it Constitutional?" and Adam
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_BudbUsjJx1ttWXfRtnenD-AjGVKAgFm-PIWAuHKVDHj6Yl9r_dS7VDug=> Winkler, a UCLA
law professor and ACS Faculty Advisor, analyzed the decision in separate
posts for ACSblog. 

"[This decision] would effectively shred the Constitution as it has been
interpreted, applied, and endorsed across a broad ideological spectrum for
the last three-quarters of a century - since the New Deal - and, actually,
dating back to Chief Justice John Marshall's expansive interpretations of
the constitutional provisions directly at issue here," Lazarus writes.

Last month, more than 125 law professors signed a
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Congress' power to regulate the health care market "unambiguous."

Listen to yesterday's press call here
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decision here
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ACS members and contributors have continued to weigh in on the
constitutionality of the health care law since its passage in op-eds, blogs
and letters to the editor in publications across the country. If you are
interested in making your voice heard in this vitally important debate,
contact Jeremy  <mailto:jleaming at acslaw.org> Leaming, associate director of
communications. 


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The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is one of the
nation's leading progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is a
rapidly growing network of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges,
policymakers and other concerned individuals. Our mission is to promote the
vitality of the U.S. Constitution and the fundamental values it expresses:
individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, access to justice,
democracy and the rule of law. For more information about the organization,
which has established student chapters at more than 175 law schools around
the country and lawyer chapters in over 30 cities, please visit
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