Margaret Talev and Michael Doyle filed a December 13th report for McClatchy on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s partial victory against Obamacare’s individual mandate writing:

Some 20-odd cases have been filed overall challenging the law.

White House officials and advocates of the law emphasized that Hudson’s ruling is no more important than two recent rulings by federal judges that upheld the mandate. In October, U.S. District Judge George Steeh in Michigan ruled the insurance mandate fit within congressional power under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. On Nov. 30, U.S. District Judge Norman Moon in Lynchburg, Va. ruled the same.

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Covering the June 29th Elena Kagan confirmation hearing, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports:

Republicans are pouncing on the less-than-crystal-clear answer Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan gave late in Tuesday’s confirmation hearing to a question from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) about whether the government has the right to micromanage Americans’ diets.
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While it’s true that Kagan never definitively answered Coburn’s question, the pair spent nearly 10 minutes discussing the issue. In comments she made after the brief [video] clip the GOP posted, Kagan indicated that laws that regulated noneconomic activity, which presumably would include eating, were beyond Congress’s commerce clause power.

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