Posted on 03/17/2010 1:41:38 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
The Landmark Legal Foundation announced today:
(LEESBURG, VA, MARCH 17, 2010)…Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.
Read the rest and view the draft complaint here.
Mark Levin ping!
We’ve only ever done reactionary things in America. He should file preemptively.
Courtesy Ping
Give’em Hell
Git after them fecal-heads!
This is about as preemptive you can get: Since the judiciary won’t take this until there is due cause, next best thing is to publicize (this PR) your intentions via the enemedia.
Do it!
I don’t know details, but there is precedent for this type of action, but never on a bill of this magnitude. So seemingly, the challenge would have to differentiate this bill from the others in which this maneuver was used. I will be interested in hearing how The Great One thinks it’s different this time.
Kill the Deemon Pass. Kill the bill!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Mark, start a legal fund we can contribute to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Great One lives up to his moniker!
What a patriot!
It looks like Impeachmant is in order!
If you read through the complaint, it claims damage that must be handled preemptively in order to avoid damage. Levin may get a hearing.
The Democrats are lying that this procedure has been used before to do the same thing. It hasn’t. The procedure has only been used before to make amendments to bills. It has never been used to actually pass a bill. That’s the difference, and that’s where the constitutional issue comes in.
I think the Republicans should clearly threaten (and follow up if necessary) that if the bill is passed in this way (i.e., the Slaughter House Rule), and if Obama signs it, they will introduce articles of impeachment against him for violating his constitutional oath to uphold the constitution. Of course, they’ll have to win control of the House of Representatives in November to make them stick, but they should do it anyway.
;-/
I think it's premature to conclude that the process used to pass the bill is constitutionally infirm.
We don't have the language of the House Concurrent Resolution yet, and signs are that it will modify (I'd say "amend," but that invokes an image of taking up the bill and amdneing it before sending it to the other chamber) HR 3590, and that if the Senate does not agree to the modification, no bill will be presented.
See Taking the Mystery out of the "Deem Scheme" for my take on what the process will entail.
Thanks for clarifying that. I figured there was some truth stretching (or even outright lying) going on out there, but didn't know the details.
I take it, from that comment, that you would not find the procedure to be constitutionally infirm if it was used to make amendments to HR 3590?
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. I couldn't believe the line "Republicans have used this tactic before".
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