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A caller to today’s show read from Article 3, Section 2 of the United States Constitution and, maintained that Judge Vinson’s ruling on Obamacare was unconstitutional because only the Supreme Court could hear the case. So, at the risk of putting everyone to sleep, let me explain the Supreme Court’s “original jurisdiction“. Pursuant to Title 28,…
Federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida has just ruled that the individual mandate in Obamacare, that all must purchase insurance or pay a penalty, is unconstitutional. This was the lawsuit brought by the State of Florida in which 25 other states joined. Given the comments by the court during…
Last month, Federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson declared the individual mandate, that all buy insurance or pay a penalty, unconstitutional. The court further held that the entire law was unconstitutional as the individual mandate could not be severed from the rest of the law.
Today, 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari before the United States Supreme Court. A “petition for writ of cert” is simply a request by the parties that the Supreme Court hear the case. This is an appeal from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion, filed…
Federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson ruled today that the law suit filed by the State of Florida, and joined by 19 other states, will go to trial.
Yesterday, United States District Court Judge Roger Vinson heard oral arguments in the case brought by Florida and nineteen other states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare’s requirement that all obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. Of course, the federal government is now calling it a tax, not a penalty when arguing its constitutionality, but that…
This morning the United States Supreme Court granted the various Petitions for Writ of Certiorari filed by the parties in what has become known as the “Florida case”. In plain English, that means that the Court will hear oral arguments in each of the cases. You can find the link to the Order here at page 3.
When Democrats “win” and get a judge to toss out legislation or a state referendum because the judge says it is unconstitutional, everything stops. Democrats demand things immediately change and people either stop what they were doing, or they should be allowed to do what they want to do. But when a judge rules ObamaCare…