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Tony Abbott had been health minister for only a few months when his home fax machine discharged the fateful report one February morning last year. Outlining the possible impact on Australia of an avian-flu pandemic, the departmental brief stunned Abbott, whose gaze kept returning to the key forecasts: 13,000 deaths, 58,000 hospitalizations and 2.6 million people seeking medical help in just the first three months of an outbreak. Abbott attended a funeral that day, but on his way to and from the service he spoke by phone to the report's author, Chief Medical Officer John Horvath...
Article I of the Constitution does authorize Congress to “provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States,” but Eastman’s brief argues that the clause does not authorize federal funding for universities because “such institutions of higher education primarily benefit local, not national, interests...
Eastman’s brief notes that the framers of the Constitution held a narrow view of the federal government’s spending powers. Moreover, President Madison, who played a key role in the drafting of Article I, vetoed a bill to construct roads and canals in 1817 because he did not believe that the Constitution permitted Congress to undertake spending projects that serve a “local or state benefit...
Eastman’s brief argues that the Solomon Amendment may in fact legitimate federal aid to Harvard and other schools. “When funding of higher education is restricted by the Solomon Amendment to institutions allowing military recruiters on campus, this overall program—or at least parts of it—is permissible under Congress’ power to raise and support armies,” the brief contends...
Eastman’s co-counsel on the brief is Edwin Meese III, a longtime aide to President Reagan who served as attorney general from...