“Journalists looking to understand America need, finally, to confront the Constitution. Here is a place where they can do that, and come away enlightened.”
– Akhil Amar, Yale Law School
Can the Obama Administration’s landmark legislative achievement—the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—withstand constitutional scrutiny? The National Constitution Center’s Peter Jennings Project offers in-depth resources for journalists reporting on the constitutionality of the health care law as well as the recent Supreme Court case U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, argued during a pivotal presidential election year. Register for your complete media guide to the health care reform debate.
On March 20th, 2012, the Jennings Project put the Obama Administration’s health care reform law to the test during its annual moot court program. Arguing this compelling preview of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida was Neal Katyal, former Acting Solicitor General in the Obama Administration, and Charles Rothfeld, a DC attorney and director of the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic. Former Third Circuit Judge Tim Lewis presided, alongside a stellar panel of present and former federal judges, distinguished law professors, and other well-known legal thinkers. View the program in its entirety.
