Two Weeks and Counting to Obamacare Arguments
U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller outlined Monday some of the major issues the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the Constitutionality of the President’s health care plan.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear the suit on March 26 in an unprecedented 3-day argument.
According to the Attorney General’s Office the arguments will go as follows..
- Monday, March 26: The Court will hear 90 minutes of argument on whether the federal Anti-Injunction Act prohibits the states from bringing a challenge to the individual insurance mandate. The 26 plaintiff states contend it does not.
- Tuesday, March 27: The Court will hear two hours of argument on the constitutionality of the mandate that individuals must buy health insurance or face a financial penalty. The plaintiffs contend the individual mandate violates the U.S. Constitution.
- Wednesday, March 28: In the morning the Court will hear 90 minutes on “severability,” whether other parts of the [law] could remain intact if the Court were to strike down the individual mandate, or if the entire law would have to be invalidated. In the afternoon the Court will hear one hour of argument on the new law’s requirement requiring state governments to dramatically expand their Medicaid programs to cover more recipients. The states contend the federal government’s requirement that states expand their state Medicaid programs or face the loss of federal funding is unconstitutionally coercive.
The audio is below. It runs approximately 10 minutes. They were joined by Solicitor General Tom Fisher and Barbara Quandt of the Indiana Chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business.
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