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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:35 Written by rslcpol Monday, 16 August 2010 12:45
From the Post and Courier:
The health care lawsuit, in particular, seems to be the target of Republican attorneys general across the country, said Harvard Law School professor Charles Fried, who was a solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan.
“I do think the constitutional argument is a joke, not serious,” he told The News.
But McMaster thinks the federal government requiring citizens to buy something is worth fighting.
“If the Congress can require South Carolinians and others to go out and buy one thing, they can require them to go out and buy another and another or do all sorts of things that are not allowed under the Constitution,” said McMaster, who ran unsuccessfully this year for the GOP nomination for governor.
Legal experts say there is some validity to the states’ claims.
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