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Justice Department Offers First Response To Health-Care Reform Challenge
Zachary Roth | May 13, 2010, 8:46AM
Attorney General Eric Holder
The Justice Department has offered its first response to one of the lawsuits filed recently challenging the constitutionality of health-care reform. And it offers a strong indication of what the government's legal strategy will be as it seeks to defend against the spate of similar lawsuits.
In a filing in U.S. District Court in Michigan today, reports Main Justice, DOJ lawyers wrote that the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative legal group in that state, lacked standing to challenge the law, because the individual mandate -- the provision at issue -- won't go into effect until 2014. "They bring this suit four years before the provision they challenge takes effect, demonstrate no current injury, and merely speculate whether the law will harm them once it is in force," wrote the government's attorneys.
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Sarah Palin
Brain Trust To Nowhere: Meet The Advisers Behind The Palin Road Show
Justin Elliott | February 11, 2010, 12:06PM
Sarah Palin
As Sarah Palin relaunches her image for the next stage of her political career, there's a small set of advisers who are shaping the former governor's policy positions and public persona.
The group, a brain trust of sorts, includes Randy Scheunemann, the lobbyist who advised McCain on foreign policy and was one of the architects of the Iraq War, and Kim Daniels, a little-known conservative attorney who specializes in "rights of conscience" health care issues.
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