White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs Declines to Say Where Constitution Authorizes Government to Force Americans to Buy Health Insurance

Washington (CNSNews.com) – At Monday's White House press briefing, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs declined to answer a question about where the Constitution authorizes the federal government to force individual Americans to buy health insurance.

Two federal judges have recently ruled that the individual mandate in the health-care bill that President Barack Obama signed last March is an unconstitutional expansion of power.

On Monday, CNSNews.com asked Gibbs, “Does the administration believe that the penalty for not carrying insurance, is that considered a tax justified by the General Welfare clause or is it justified by the Commerce Clause?