Conservative Legal Scholars Disturbed by Questions Asked by Conservative Justices

Ronald Reagan, a conservative icon (despite the fact that he raised taxes and increased the national debt), selected  as his Solicitor General, Charles Fried, that is, his chief lawyer for arguing cases before the Supreme court.  Here is what Ronald Reagan’s Solicitor General had to say about the Supreme Court’s three days on the Affordable Care Act.

“There is a market for health care. It’s a coordinated market. A heavily regulated market. Is Congress creating the market in order to regulate it? It’s not creating it! The market is there! Is it forcing people into it in order to regulate them? In every five-year period, 95 percent of the population is in the health-care market. Now, it’s not 100 percent, but I’d say that’s close enough for government work. And in any one year, it’s close to 85 percent. Congress isn’t forcing people into that market to regulate them. The whole thing is just a canard that’s been invented by the tea party and Randy Barnetts of the world, and I was astonished to hear it coming out of the mouths of the people on that bench.”

According to Ronald Reagan's Solicitor General the act is constitutional and we all ought to be deeply disturbed by hearing Supreme Court justices repeating Tea Party sound bites in their questions for the current Solicitor General and opposing council.