Monday, January 31, 2011
Another activist Republican judge does his dirty work
This time it is a judge appointed by St Ronnie himself who has gone outside the law to declare that the Healthcare for Everyone bill is unconstitutional.
A federal judge has ruled that the health care reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama in March is unconstitutional.The government will appeal this blatant judicial overreach.
Judge Roger Vinson, a Reagan appointee serving in Pensacola, Florida, ruled that key components of the law are unconstitutional and that the entire law "must be declared void."
In the decision, Vinson writes:
"... I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate. That is not to say, of course, that Congress is without power to address the problems and inequities in our health care system. The health care market is more than one sixth of the national economy, and without doubt Congress has the power to reform and regulate this market. That has not been disputed in this case. The principal dispute has been about how Congress chose to exercise that power here.
Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."
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