Schumer: Court Overturning Obamacare Would Be an Activist Decision

Alicia Powe | April 2, 2012
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"Should the Supreme Court overturn this law, it would be so far out of the mainstream that the Court would be the most activist in a century," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.

"If they were to throw out the health care law, things like Medicare, Social Security, food safety laws could be in jeopardy on the very same ground. It would be a dramatic, 180 degree turn of the tradition of the commerce clause.”