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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: TimF who wrote (88561)8/4/2010 12:49:50 AM
From: MJ1 Recommendation   of 224744
 
Good to see Virginia leading the way in preserving the rights of citizens against the intrusion of the titular POTUS and his fellow travelers.

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson has, at least for now, stopped the Federal Governments intrusion into the private lives of Virginia citizens and other American citizens---- imposed by the titular POTUS Obama's mandates within the socialist bill that deigns to control every aspect of a citizens medical life and indirectly their lives.

As Judge Hudson wrote ------

The Associated Press report:

Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday as a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli claims in the lawsuit that Congress doesn’t have the authority to require citizens to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson’s ruling denied the Justice Department’s attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed, saying further hearings were needed to weigh the merits of the case. An Oct. 18 hearing had previously been set.

“Unquestionably, this regulation radically changes the landscape of health insurance coverage in America,” Hudson wrote in his 32-page decision.

The Virginia General Assembly passed legislation this year exempting state residents from the federal coverage mandate. Hudson wrote that the attorney general had a right to defend that state law.

Cuccinelli announced in March that he would challenge the national law. More than a dozen other state attorneys general have filed a separate lawsuit in Florida challenging the federal law, but Virginia’s lawsuit is the first to go before a judge.

Hudson said Virginia’s case raises several complex constitutional issues — mainly whether Congress has the right under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause to regulate and tax a person’s decision not to participate in interstate commerce.

As posted from Don Surber's archives

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