Asked About Justification for Insurance Mandate, Gibbs References Statements Backing Only Commerce Clause, Not Government’s Constitutional Authority to Tax

Eric Scheiner | February 8, 2011
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The Obama administration continues to implement the health care law and defend its coming individual mandate despite the fact that two federal judges have declared it unconstitutional – and one declared a “functional injunction.” But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is not clear as of late what the chief constitutional defense of the law is.

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