June 28, 2012

June 28, 2012 - Healthcare Edition

A Tax, Not a Penalty - Liberty Law Blog (Reinsch)

Tax Not So Coercive? - Pileus (Cleveland)

Economic Mandates Are Unconstitutional — But This Was Not A Genuine Economic Mandate - Volokh (Kerr)

The Decision to Uphold the Mandate as Tax Represents a Gestalt Shift in Constitutional Law  - Legal Theory Blog

Was Scalia’s Dissent Originally a Majority Opinion? - Volokh (Bernstein)

Obamacare Upheld: Thank Goodness! - Pileus (Otteson)

Supreme Court upholds health care law, individual mandate - CNS (Bauman)

How right I was: “IRS The New Health Care Enforcer” - Legal Insurrection (Jacobson)

Some Brief Initial Thoughts on the Health Care Decision - MoJ (Stabile)

A Man Must go down Fighting - TIC

Supreme Court Majority Endorses Activity-Inactivity Distinction - Volokh (Somin)

The Conservative John Roberts - Volokh (Kerr)

It Now Falls to Congress - RCP (Pilon)

The Perils of Shortsightedness - Volokh (Bernstein)

3 comments:

  1. Yay! Now they can tax us on things we don't buy!

    Note the sarcasm.

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  2. Hello, conscience tax. Thanks, SCOTUS. :/

    Although I'm fascinated by the theories about the long-game Roberts is playing, I wonder if it's not just some overly optimistic speculation on the parts of the writers. Only time will tell. Thanks for the roundup, Jonathan! I sent this on to Mark, too.

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  3. Kate,

    Thank you for passing this along. The next few months should be an interesting.

    Anne,

    Sarcasm duly noted.

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