# 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Affordable Care Act **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 30, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6th-circuit-court-of-appeals-upholds-affordable-care-act/587331 "2011-06-30T00:00:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6th-circuit-court-of-appeals-upholds-affordable-care-act/587331/2 "2011-06-30T00:54:05Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > [This](http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-healthcare-ruling-20110630,0,4695606.story) is excellent news for supporters of health care reform, such as myself. Interestingly enough, one of the judges in the majority was a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Justice Scalia. I’m happy to see a conservative applying the principle of “judicial restraint” even with issues conservatives disagree with. Well, it’s more _stare decisis_ than judicial restraint in general, but I agree that this is the correct result legally. I think the Affordable Care Act is poor public policy, and I think the best construction of the constitution would deny Congress the power to pass it… but I also think that issue was decided against me sixty years ago. Today, the correct answer is the one the Sixth Circuit came up with. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6th-circuit-court-of-appeals-upholds-affordable-care-act/587331)._