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October 6, 2011

Title: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Hear Arguments To Determine the Constitutionality of Obamacare?
Topic: Obamacare

Discussed by Dr. John Baker
with The Fund for American Studies (www.TFAS.org)

Joining us for a follow-up interview on Obamacare is Professor John Baker.

Today, we discuss:

1. Will the U.S. Supreme Court hear the case?

2. Will any Justice be asked to recuse themselves, or will any recuse themselves voluntarily?

3. Professor John Baker expresses his opinion as to what the U. S. Supreme Court might do?

What next for Obamacare? What will the U. S. Supreme Court do?

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July 8, 2011

Title: Will Nationalizing Medical Malpractice Law Be Unconstitutional?
Topic: HR 5: Nationalization of Medical Malpractice Law

Discussed by Dr. John Baker
with The Fund for American Studies (www.TFAS.org)

What compels House Republican leaders to ignore the Constitution? The explanation for the eagerness of House Republican leaders to nationalize even more of the economy is a simple reality: both Congressional Democrats and Congressional Republicans like the New Deal interpretation of the Commerce Clause, which allow them to expand national power. They would just do so for different purposes.

To justify their efforts to nationalize medical malpractice law, House Republicans are stretching the Supreme Court’s New Deal Commerce Clause jurisprudence almost as far as Democrats did for Obamacare. Both national medical malpractice reform and Obamacare are radically at odds with our constitutional structure of federalism.

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