Wall Street Journal: Conservative justices challenge health law

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The Supreme Court’s five conservative justices on Tuesday sharply challenged the Obama administration’s arguments for the health-care law, with Justice Anthony Kennedy saying the government has a “very heavy burden of justification” for the measure’s requirement that people carry health insurance or pay a penalty.

But Justice Kennedy, a perennial swing vote on the court, also asked some skeptical questions of the law’s challengers, leaving the fate of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation in doubt.

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