Friday, May 24, 2013
Maine Attorney General William Schneider plans to be on hand next week in Washington as oral arguments rage over whether President Obama’s health care reform law is constitutional.
Schneider, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, will not be one of the lawyers actually arguing the case before the justices.
Rather, Schneider is there along with some other attorneys general to listen in on a case where Maine has signed a brief arguing that the law’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance coverage is unconstitutional. Schneider says the law also is “unconstitutionally coercive” in forcing states to substantially expand state-federal funded Medicaid programs and that entire law should fail if one part is found to be unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court is hearing three days of oral arguments next week, and Schneider is scheduled to attend the Wednesday afternoon session, his office said.
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Kevin Miller is Washington bureau chief for the Portland Press Herald and MaineToday Media. He has worked as a journalist in Maine for 6 ½ years, covering the environment, politics and the State House. Before arriving in Maine, he wrote about politics, government and education for newspapers in Virginia and Maryland.
Kevin can be reached at 317-6256 or kmiller@mainetoday.com
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