You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth.
Posted on 02/04/2011 1:39:45 PM PST by Libloather
Miss. judge dismiss health care overhaul lawsuit
Associated Press - February 4, 2011 3:04 PM ET
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit in Mississippi that challenges a provision of the Obama Administration's federal health care law, but the judge gave the plaintiffs 30 days to file an amended complaint.
U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett ruled Thursday that the 10 people who filed the suit haven't shown they have legal "standing" to challenge the constitutionality of the law's minimum essential coverage provision.
But the judge didn't rule on the merits of their claims. He gave them a month to correct their suit's "jurisdictional defects."
The plaintiffs claim the law's provision would force them to purchase health insurance or pay a tax penalty.
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Big leftist buzz on the web over this one. They're partying like it's 1999.
This ruling is as meaningless as the VA ruling against those suing on the abortion component. The 26 states DO have “standing”, so this is irrelevant.
It’s difficult for me to believe that any US Citizen doesn’t have standing to question the Constitutionality of any Federal law.
“The plaintiffs claim the law’s provision would force them to purchase health insurance or pay a tax penalty.”
Tax penalty. Ahh yes...as I said before. This is s jizya which is an Islamic tax on non-muslims. Muslims are exempt from ObamaCare but non-muslims get taxed for it. The first Islamic tax on Americans.
What you find difficult is easily explained if your have a full decade of liberal education beyond high school. These judges are really smart, no common sense for them.
maybe they forgot to write their names in all caps? There’s a whole moonbat manual on that somewhere.. Hm.
Really Frantzie?
I had heard something about this but didn’t know if it had come to fruition.
Big time equal protection issues with that, too.
Or we all simply call ourselves “Muslim”. I mean, if Zero claims NOT to be, we can certainly claim TO be with the same level of credibility?
The judge is wrong. They do have standing.
Just like some here have been partying like it's 1999 over Vinson's ruling. Neither is justified, at least not yet.
A few skirmishes have been won by each side. There are some much bigger battles yet to be fought.
No standing. Outrageous.
If they are U.S. citizens who are going to be forced under penalty of law to buy a product from the U.S. government then they HAVE standing. Citizens have the right to petition the government for redress of grievances under the first amendment.
The incompetent judge can piss off.
You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth.
Mississippi ping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Starrett
Another “conservative judge” appointed by this idiot’s equally idiotic predecessor.
From Bush I through Clinton, Bush II and Obama, America has suffered under the direction of a series of idiots.
Understand that any and every Fed Judge greenlighting nobamacare, is trumped by any one judge ruling it unconstitutional. Thus it is ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL unless reversed by SCOTUS.
They will deny it but essentially ObamaCare is a Jizya or tax on non-muslims.
Have you read the pleadings?
I’m as opposed to 0bamacare as the next FReeper, but...
this might as well be called an “Amish jiyza” as well. They are exempt. As are Christians who join medical cost sharing programs.
This is just the wrong approach.
0bamacare is unconstitutional in premise as well as fact.
Just stick with that.
If, as you say, every US citizen had standing to sue on a federal law, the courts and government would be at a standstill, overwhelmed by the doofis suits filed. That’s why we have the standing rules.
I'd say that the CongressCritters are the ones gumming up the system (and may have a higher fraction of MoonBats than the population at large).
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