The ruling was by a federal district court. That means it has to go through the appeals process. Thus, the legislative act still has legal credibility. It was signed into law, remember.
I posted in a thread some days ago that a vote in Congress would be more symbolic that anything, but on further thought I’ve changed my mind. If anything is to be done now, it should be on both fronts. Voting to repeal, even if it doesn’t mount to a veto-proof majority, would send a clear message to the administration that he’s being challenged on both fronts. It would also send a clear message to the American people that two branches of our government are in agreement over the constitutionality of this legislative act.
During the hearings for Kagan, a senator tried to get her to go on record, ie, to “trap” her about what she would see as any law outside the authority of the Congress,
with obvious implications on 0bamacare.
“Would it be unconstitutional for Congress to pass a law requiring people to eat vegetables?”
She sidestepped it with her [annoying nasally voice] “well, that would be a dumb law” but refused to say that she’d rule it unconstitutional. In other words, in her legal worldview, there is no limit on the power of the gov’t.
The question would remain - if 0bamacare is legal, if people can be required to purchase health insurance, then exactly what WOULDN’T be constitutional?
Absolutely NOTHING. And we no longer live in a Constitutional republic.