Obama: Mandate Will Survive Legal Challenges
Sam Stein at The Huffington Post reports:
President Barack Obama said on Monday that he was confident that his signature health care law would survive legal challenges despite a setback in a Virginia federal court.
Speaking to an Ohio ABC affiliate, the president offered a bit of swagger when asked for the first time by a reporter to respond to a federal court's ruling that the individual-mandate provision of the health care legislation was unconstitutional
"I'm confident that this will be upheld in the courts," Obama told SYX Columbus. "Keep in mind, we had already had two other federal courts rule that it was constitutional, we have had 12 other courts that have dismissed challenges to the health care law. So this was one opinion that we strongly disagree with, but we already have the majority of other lower-court [decisions]."
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