Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear one of the most significant cases in American history when it considers the constitutionality of President Obama’s national health care law.
Twenty-six states (led by Florida), along with the National Federation of Independent Business, will be arguing that Congress exceeded its power in passing the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance or else face a penalty. The Obama Justice Department will defend the law.
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In an indication of the historic nature of the case, the Supreme Court has granted six hours of oral arguments spread out over three days between Monday and Wednesday of next week. That’s the most time allocated to any case since the 1960s, according to Jerry Goldman, director of the Oyez Project, a Supreme Court archive at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
In the run-up to next week’s arguments, The Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein and Conn Carroll have explored this case’s many facets in this special report:
