Michael Carvin, one of the lawyers who argued against President Obama’s national health care law before the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals, said the court’s decision to strike down the law’s individual mandate shows that the constitutional questions being raised transcend politics.

“It refutes the notion that this is a partisan policy fight where only the Republican appointed judges agree with our constitutional analysis,” Carvin said in a telephone interview. “This shows that it is a serious Commerce Clause issue where Congress has exceeded its power in an unprecedented way.”