anchor: If the LSC-funded lawyers were here arguing that the statute permitted representation of individual welfare claimants who did not challenge existing law, I venture to say that the Court would endorse their argument- perhaps with stirring language about the importance of aid to welfare applicants and the Court's unwillingness to presume without clear indication that Congress would want to eliminate it.
positive: The Court is unwilling to be presumptuous in matters linked to Congress.
negative: Aid to welfare applicants is federally mandated.