On the afternoon of Jan. 31, Rich-ard A. Epstein was in his office at New York University Law School when a request came in from a conservative website called Ricochet.com. A federal district court judge in Florida had just struck down the Obama Administra-tion's health-care overhaul, and the site wanted Epstein's reaction. Judge Roger Vinson had ruled that in passing the bill last year, Congress exceeded the author-ity granted it by the so-called Commerce Clause: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which allows lawmak-ers "to regulate Commerce... among the several states."
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机译：1月31日下午，Rich-ard A. Epstein在一个保守的网站Ricochet.com的要求下，在纽约大学法学院的办公室里。佛罗里达州的联邦地方法院法官刚刚撤销了奥巴马政府对医疗保健的改革，该地点希望爱泼斯坦的反应。罗杰·温森（Roger Vinson）法官裁定，去年通过该法案时，国会超过了所谓的《商业条款》所赋予的权威性：《美国宪法》第一条第8款第3款允许法律制定者“对商业...在几个州中。”
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