Roberts Chooses Restraint Over History on Obamacare
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June 28 (Bloomberg) -- If the U.S. Supreme Court had wantedto make history, it could have: Striking down the individualmandate in the health-care law would have been the most weightySupreme Court ruling since Franklin Roosevelt’s first New Dealwas ruled unconstitutional three-quarters of a century ago.
By upholding the individual mandate -- after honestlyacknowledging that making people buy insurance is a tax -- thecourt chose the more cautious course.