President Barack Obama voiced confidence Monday that the Supreme Court will uphold his health care law in his first public remarks on the issue since the three days of oral arguments last week.
Obama suggested that the high court would be guilty of judicial activism if it overturned the law, and stressed that he believed the justices would see the individual mandate as an integral part of the law.
We are confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld, Obama said at a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
The reason is because in accordance with precedent out there, its constitutional, Obama said. Thats not just my opinion, by the way. Thats the opinion of legal experts across the ideological spectrum, including two very conservative appellate court justices who said this wasnt even a close case.
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