Losing Obamacare While Preserving the Constitution
Description:“We won in our effort to preserve the Constitution and, in fact, we moved the ball in a more positive direction,” says Georgetown Law's Randy Barnett, one of the legal architects behind the constitutional challenge to ObamaCare.
Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in the 5-to-4 decision upheld ObamaCare's individual mandate as an exercise of Congress’ tax powers, while simultaneously rejecting the Obama administration’s sweeping assertion of federal power under the Commerce Clause.(32:48)