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Health care law's fate rests with justices
March 29, 2012
March 29, 2012
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Complete coverage: Health care law debate
"When have we ever really struck down what was the main purpose of the act, and left the rest in effect?" asked Justice Antonin Scalia.
The typically blunt Scalia suggested it would be better if Congress started with a clean slate, instead of the court deciding which of the law's other provisions could stand. And he joked that reading the 2,700 page law would violate a constitutional amendment: cruel and unusual punishment.
"What happened to the Eighth Amendment?" he asked. "You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?" The remark was
scrapped.
Complete coverage: Health care law debate
"When have we ever really struck down what was the main purpose of the act, and left the rest in effect?" asked Justice Antonin Scalia.
The typically blunt Scalia suggested it would be better if Congress started with a clean slate, instead of the court deciding which of the law's other provisions could stand. And he joked that reading the 2,700 page law would violate a constitutional amendment: cruel and unusual punishment.
"What happened to the Eighth Amendment?" he asked. "You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?" The remark was
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