Testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried said he was "quite sure the health care mandate is constitutional." Fried, who currently is a professor of law at Harvard, went on to say that the argument that health care regulation is not regulation of commerce (which is permitted by the Constitution) is "entirely wrong and even worse quite confused."
Watch this get lost in the "mainstream media," which is continuing the role of Rethug lie-enabler that it established for itself during the year the health care debate was raging. How so? As Steve Benen shows (via Kos), the media is giving much more attention to the two rulings against the health care law than to the two rulings that declared it constitutional. Fairly unbalanced I would say.
