Hey remember when Justice Breyer asked a star member of the conservative legal bar whether the federal government could mandate vaccinations during an outbreak that could sicken half the country's population, and that lawyer said, "nope, sorry"?

I do: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2011/11-398-Tuesday.pdf

Here's the exchange during the 2012 Obamacare case:

Here's the lawyer's explanation:

And here's Alito coming to the rescue of that lawyer because his horrifying answer to Breyer's epidemic hypo could have threatened the conservative effort to kill Obamacare's individual mandate

(Note it was Michael Carvin, not Paul Clement, arguing the entirety of that exchange, despite the transcription error chalking one line up to Clement.)

I ran into Carvin at baggage claim in DC upon returning from the 2016 Republican National Convention. He was backing Trump because of court appointments. https://twitter.com/MikeSacksEsq/status/756496198425600000?s=20