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Posted on 05/16/2010 5:10:27 PM PDT by Libloather
Barbour officially enters lawsuit
by Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
1 day 14 hrs ago
JACKSON – As promised, Gov. Haley Barbour has joined a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health care legislation passed earlier this year by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Barbour officially joined the lawsuit Friday.
“The health care law ... is an unprecedented expansion of federal power,” Barbour said in a prepared statement. “The Constitution does not give Congress or the federal government the authority to force every American to purchase health insurance.”
Soon after the health care legislation was passed in March, the Republican governor said he would join in a lawsuit originally filed by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum. He said in April he would join the lawsuit on behalf of Mississippi when the lawsuit, which includes at least 18 other states, was amended.
Barbour had originally asked Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, to enter the lawsuit, but he refused. Hood said he doubts the chances of the lawsuit being successful, but would continue to monitor the situation and could join at a later date.
Most of the states suing are headed by Republican governors.
They say the law’s mandate that people purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. They also say the new law will mean additional costs for the states and for businesses.
The National Federation of Independent Business also has joined the Florida lawsuit.
“This new law will ultimately force the state to raise taxes, as hundreds of thousands of new people will be added to our Medicaid rolls,” Barbour said. “The regulatory changes, and some of the accompanying costs, begin immediately.”
At least for the rest of this decade, various sources have indicated the federal government is slated to pick up the additional Medicaid costs.
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and a bipartisan multi-state coalition from across the nation – which now includes 20 states – today took the next legal step necessary to advance their challenge to the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Act”). An amended complaint filed in federal district court reflects the addition of the following seven states to the original 13 state coalition: Indiana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Alaska. In addition to adding new parties to the challenge, the amended complaint raises additional constitutional problems with the new health care law.
Court documents filed by the states explain that the Act infringes upon state sovereignty in violation of the Tenth Amendment and Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. As the amended legal challenge explains, the new law – which will cost Texas taxpayers an estimated $27 billion over a 10-year period – improperly forces states to spend billions of additional dollars on taxpayer-funded social programs the states cannot afford; unconstitutionally requires state agencies to carry out initiatives for the federal government; improperly commandeers state resources to implement federal regulatory prerogatives; and interferes with the states’ abilities to govern their relationships with their own state employees.
“The new federal health care law violates the U.S. Constitution and unconstitutionally infringes upon Texans’ individual liberties,” Attorney General Abbott said. “Our nation’s founding fathers had the wisdom to limit the federal government’s authority by specifically enumerating the powers given to Congress – and Congress does not have the authority to force individuals to buy a service from a private insurance company as a condition of being a law-abiding American.”
This is an excerpt.
http://highplainsobserver.com/clients/highplainsobserver/legal-challenge-to-federal-health-care-law-advances-as-challengers-grow-to-p13731.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=111&mad=No
LLS
Can someone explain why the other states (Republican ones) are taking so long to join??????????
Georgia just joined, too. Our delay stemmed from having a Democrat as State Attorney General. The AG defied an order from the Governor to file suit, so the Governor had to appoint a special Attorney General to do it instead.
No, they may look for guidance from Nigeria, maybe the UN, but not a chance will they consider the voices of the uprising, the resistance, the states and people screaming for a return to sanity in government.
Ms Ping
If they manage to get a majority of states to challenge it, the federal government is going to have a real fight on its hands.
Sir, I do believe we have a rebellion.
Hey! Governor(s)! While your dealing with the anti-Constitutional Health Care Deform plan from the 0bamunists, might want to tackle the rest of the crap sandwich we’ve been chewing for the past many years.
You know...Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, HHS, and all the rest.
It’s time to take back the country. Starting with a revitalized Constitution is a good first step.
It is way past time.
“The Wise Latina and the Hussein worshiper Kagan will flick away state lawsuits as if they were lint.”
If they are not in the majority it does not matter.
Either we kill 0bamaCare or 0bamaCare will kill us. Literally and economically.
Yes, a lot of these states have RAT attorney generals.
In that case, they will leave The People no other choice. It will be "on".
I was about to ask a question about the presumed unconstitutionality when a majority of the states thought something unconstitutional. Then it occurred to me that this is the exact tragedy caused by direct election of senators, who were their to limit the power of the federal government and uphold the prerogatives of the states. If a majority of states viewed something a certain way, presumably their senators, being creatures of their legislatures and governors would view it the same way.
Our founding fathers were very smart, thoughtful and well-educated.
I hope the state of Georgia impeaches the rat bastard.Just another commie supporter is all baker is.
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