ACS Blog: In Under-Reported D.C. Circuit Oral Argument, Prominent Republican Judges Suggest Novel Arguments for Upholding Health Care Law’s Individual Mandate

(9/26/11) Simon Lazarus writes that the two Republicans on the three-judge panel, Reagan appointee Laurence Silberman and Bush II appointee Brett Kavanaugh, displayed in-depth grasp and even sympathy for arguments supporting the mandate…At a minimum, neither judge showed an appetite for reflexively parroting Republican talking points, along the lines of the Virginia and Florida district court decisions that struck the mandate down last December and January. READ THE BLOG