CatholicVote.org believes that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a pernicious expansion of federal power that undermines individual liberty and responsibility, diminishes the sphere of private charitable activity, and arrogates to the federal government totalitarian control of a vitally important and deeply personal matter. 

Accordingly, CatholicVote.org files this brief in support of the Respondent and urging affirmance of the decision striking down the individual mandate.