{"id":31604,"date":"2012-03-27T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/justices_signal_possible_trouble_ahead_for_health_insurance_mandate\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:55:29","slug":"justices_signal_possible_trouble_ahead_for_health_insurance_mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31604","title":{"rendered":"Justices signal possible trouble ahead for health insurance mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even before the Obama administration\u2019s top lawyer could get three minutes into his defense of the mandate, the justices accused the government of pushing for excessive authority to require Americans to buy anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre there any limits,\u201d\u009d asked Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of three conservative justices who are seen as critical to the fate of the unprecedented insurance mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.suggested the government might require Americans to buy cell phones to be ready for emergencies. And Justice Antonin Scalia asked if the government might require Americans to buy broccoli or automobiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-justices-signal-possible-trouble-ahead-for-health-insurance-mandate-20120327,0,423592.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before the Obama administration\u2019s top lawyer could get three minutes into his defense of the mandate, the justices accused the government of pushing for excessive authority to require Americans to buy anything. \u201cAre there any limits,\u201d\u009d asked Justice Anthony<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31604\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,513,104,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}