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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the individual mandate component of the health care bill signed into law by President Obama was unconstitutional. The court let the rest of the law stand. The opinion states, “It cannot be denied that the individual mandate is an unprecedented exercise of congressional power.” It can be read here.
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SCM| 8.12.11 @ 2:03PM
Big deal. Just another court for Obama to ignore.
Solo| 8.12.11 @ 3:15PM
Without the "individual mandate", the whole legislation falls apart at the seams.
The whole point of this scam was to force everyone to accept what the federal government (read; leftists) dictates.
The democrat fall back strategy will be to simply hand out health insurance to anyone who asks for it and then tax the hell out of us to pay for it all.
That's going to be a tough sell in this environment.
One step left to go and Obamacare is history!
LiveFreeOrDie| 8.12.11 @ 3:40PM
It's a start, however, I cannot ignore the deafening silence from the R's regarding repeal.
Timely Renewed | 8.12.11 @ 5:36PM
The problem with the decisions both for and against health care reform is the vagueness of the Supreme Court's vast expansion of the interstate commerce clause since 1937. The time has come for the people rather than the Supreme Court to decide the constitutional status not only of Obamacare, but of the innumerable other ways in which the federal government has increased its power beyond the original scope of the Constitution. Do we accept the New Deal reinterpretation of the interstate commerce clause, or do we restore the interstate commerce clause to its original much more limited meaning? This popular decision should be made in the manner prescribed by the document itself, which is amendment, not the vote of a few unelected, unaccountable life-tenured judges. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com.
Mike 3/505| 8.13.11 @ 1:18AM
We need to engage in select civil disobedience, on health care and other BS federal stuff...like a CDL to operate a farm tractor. In order to do this, we need to elect local, city/county commissioners & sheriffs who will tell the fed where to get off when they come to enforce this stuff.
Federal judges have no power except that which local law enforcement allows federal agents to use.
Regards,
Mike
Oldefarte| 8.12.11 @ 5:36PM
Hopefully its a precursor for next year's SCOTUS declaration of its unconstitutional nature [just before the November elections at which time many Democrats will be tossed out of office for forcibly passing it]!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 8.12.11 @ 10:10PM
Well, if the individual mandate falls, so does the bill. Right?
Kagan should recuse herself.
LiveFreeOrDie| 8.12.11 @ 11:53PM
Liberal activist judges have little regard for the constitution as written, supreme or not. It's hard to imagine she possesses enough integrity to recuse herself.
Oldefarte| 8.13.11 @ 1:01PM
Here, here, OT! What's more, she never should have been nominated [but that's another story]. PS, Alabama's former RB Mark Ingram had a fantastic start with the N.O Saints [and scored his first TD].......ROOOOLLLLL TIDE!!!!!!!
Timothy L. Pennell| 8.13.11 @ 4:43AM
Somebody help me out. Is there a Magic Number of Circuit Courts of Appeal, that have to weigh in on this, before it can go to the Supreme Court? Is it 5? 6?
One says it's NOT Constitutional. The next one says it is, Then it isn't. Then it is, again.
States are Spending Money they don't have, for something that may never come on line. They should STOP.
If I'm the Governor of a State, i put the Brakes on, now. "Not another DIME, until this thing is hashed out.
And, to the SUPREME COURT?
It's just a name, people. You put your pants on, one leg at a time. Just like the rest of us. You cough and you sneeze, and sometimes, you even LET ONE RIP, only to find that diarrhea is a dish best served cold.
No. That's revenge.
Anyway. YOU GET THE PICTURE.
Come down offa your High Horses, and do some Freakin Work!
This needs to be settled, NOW!
As my NANA used to say: Sh*t, or get off the pot.
(Is this too many POOP references? Or, is that impossible?)
Mimi| 8.13.11 @ 9:44AM
Tim....again you are so right...There is nothing that justifies the SUPREMES , holding this up. We all know that the minute it's declared un-constitutional , the economy, business hiring, tax revenues (from as Marco Rubio says more tax-payers) will take off like a ROCKET!
This should not be held up any longer...enough Judges have weighed in on both sides ...plenty of "BRIEFS" to gloss over.....If ever in history a Supreme Court decision was more important than this one I'd like to know...This effects every Americans lifeboth in an intimate way (ONES ownership of ones BODY) And the WHOLE-NATIONS economical well being. This MUST be on the table SOON....I am of the OPINION that IT is a dire emergency....The country is in CRITICAL CONDITION...Hanging on to its very life by a THREAD !!!