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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended President Barack Obama’s comments urging the Supreme Court to uphold the health care law, telling a panel of federal judges that courts should show “deference” to the “legislative judgements of Congress.”
Holder, responding to a demand for his views on whether federal judges have the authority to strike down federal laws, affirmed that they have such authority.
“The power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute,” he wrote in a letter to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
But Holder said acts of Congress are presumed to be constitutional and should be overturned only sparingly.
