Roll Call - Republican Senators Urge SCOTUS to Nullify Health Care Law

By Humberto Sanchez, RollCall.com

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and 35 other Senate Republicans today weighed in on the latest fight over President Barack Obama’s two-year-old health care reform law, filing a friend of the court brief urging the Supreme Court find it unconstitutional....

McConnell’s brief comes as 117 House Republicans, including Minority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.), joined the American Center for Law and Justice in an amicus brief making the same case: that the individual mandate cannot be severed from the health care law and that the entire law is unconstitutional.

Both briefs contend that the mandate is critical to the law and it cannot operate without the mandate.

“Without the individual mandate, the [law’s] remaining provisions cannot function properly,” the ACLJ brief said. “Thus, the unconstitutional individual mandate is not severable from the [law], and the entire Act must be invalidated.”...

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