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Politics vs. The Health Care Lawsuit: N.C. Attorney General’s Decision Is Not Supported by a Proper Legal Analysis

by Daren Bakst
posted on in City & County Government, Government Reform, Health Care & Human Services
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North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper decided not to join a lawsuit challenging whether the recently enacted federal health care bill is constitutional. The Attorney General’s legal analysis used to justify not taking action avoided the primary legal questions regarding the law’s constitutionality.


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Daren Bakst is the Research Fellow in Agricultural Policy at the Heritage Foundation.  In this position, Bakst studies and writes about agricultural and environmental policy and property rights, among other issues.  He has done extensive work on the farm bill… ...

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