Obama health law seen valid, scholars expecting rejection

Jesse Choper quoted in Bloomberg News, June 22, 2012

“There was certainly a lot of hostile questioning by the more conservative members of the court,” said Jesse Choper, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley who described the court as likely to support the mandate. “It’s relatively straightforward—if they adhere to existing doctrine, it seemed to me they’re likely to uphold it.”