they're concede iing. >> david rifkin, let me come back to you on this.hy are you so sure that they will overturn the mandate, the individual mandate, the heart and guts of this whole thing? >> well, a simple reason. not just following the questions from the four conservative justice and justice kennedy, who is often the case will be the key. but, frankly, because of utter inability of a government to come up with an answer of the most compelling question which is what is the mean iing princie between this mandate. if a government is there, it has general police power. the dual summary of the system is there. it's not because the company has bad lawyers. and, perhaps some of the predecessors again from what i argued. they had a bum of a case. can st lawyer in highs shoes and he would not be able to give an answer. there's no limiting principle. the individual mandate, whatever its policy virtues, is not supportable by limb rated powers. >> i'll give you equal time on that. >> the constitution says that congress can regulate commercial. that means that eco

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the first statement will be made -- mort rosenburg followed by doug kamick, david rifkin and walter dellenjer. after the formal presentations, i'll give the panelists an opportunity to question one another and i'm sure we'll see a spirited debate at that point. then we'll go onto questions from the audience, so keep track of the thing that is you don't think have actually been covered and we'll try to address those. many thanks for being here. i hope you find this panel, as i think you will, informative. let me start, then, with an introduction for mort. >> and his -- his opinions, there were nine of them during that period, were extremely important in establishing some of the basic ideas for how we look today at the appointments process. he also served as consultant and general counsel -- to the general counsel of the public company accounting oversight board, known as the pcaob, and its private counsel in preparing briefs and presenting oral arguments before the supreme court in the 2009 case free enterprise fund versus pcaob, which was another appointments case. he's also been a specialist

buy health insurance or pay the penalty. 26 states challenge at that provision and attorney david rifkin represented them in the trial and appellate courts. he joins me now. you're the guy who started it out. in 2009 and the lower court case, so, when are you going be to be looking for when you listen to the justice the next week? >> well, i'm going to be looking for, a spirited questioning which of course, also looking for indications, particularly from justices candy, and scalia, that they appreciate what this case is all about. this case is all about, as you mentioned in your excellent editorial, it's about the constitutional architecture, that is designed to protect individual liberty and that's the dual sovereignty system and power between the federal government and the state and emphatically withholds from the federal government, to relate individuals. okay, but the people, and the administration says, look, the commerce clause of the congress the right to regulate congress, health care is commerce. so, why is this case different than other regulation of commerce cases? >> the reas

much. [ applause ] >> our next speaker, among these distinguished counsels on the panel is david rifkin. david is a member of the baker litigation international and environmental groups and co-chairs the firm's appellate and major motions team. he has extensive experience and constitutional administrative and international litigation from 1992 to 1993, he was associate executive director and general counsel of the president's counsel on competitiveness, while at the white house, he was responsible for the review, analysis and legal issues related to the regulatory review conducted by the counsel. he's also served as associate general counsel at the united states dpt of energy from 1990 to 1991 and played a significant role in developing the reagan and bush administrations affecting natural gas and electric utility industries. david, the floor is yours. >> thank you. thank you to peter and thank you to a&i for putting this on and giving me an opportunity to visit and see a few old friends. to dispel any lingering doubt, i thank mort and i thank peter. i think that these reports are uncon

barrel just months before the entire global economy when a full meltdown as economists jura in germany rifkin pointed out the price of oil is directly related to the stability of the global economy eight hundred forty seven a barrel people stop by because all the supply chain is too expensive and the entire economic engine of the industrial revolution shut down in july of two thousand and eight that was the great economic earthquake of the second best revolution the collapse of the financial markets sixty days later it was the aftershock we now know the outer limits of how far we can globalize this world based on the leap fossil fuels it's a proper hundred fifty barrel and it'll shutout. so war with iran would push the price of oil above that critical hundred fifty dollars mark forcing the global economy to shutdown and plunging the united states into a great depression and if it happens before the election and you can kiss president obama's second term goodbye which might explain why political operatives in the republican party and fox so-called news are pushing so hard to force the presiden

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