Posted on 03/21/2010 9:30:36 PM PDT by NoobRep
ORLANDO, FL -- Moments after Congress voted to approve President Obama's health care legislation, Florida's Attorney General announced he will file a lawsuit to declare the bill unconstitutional.
Bill McCollum will join Attorneys General from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Pennsylvania, Washington, North Dakota and South Dakota to file a lawsuit against the federal government.
"The health care reform legislation passed by the U. S. House of Representatives this evening clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty," McCollum said in a statement distributed late Sunday night.
"If the President signs this bill into law, we will file a lawsuit to protect the rights and the interests of American citizens."
McCollum will hold a press conference at his Orlando office Monday morning to discuss his plans.
Not unless it's written in Spanish.
LOL
These lawsuits will go no where and do nothing except make a lot of money for some attorneys. Face it, Obamacare is the law of the land.
Fair points, and I agree that we should try to restore our country. I think the court system is our best hope. I am in no finacial position to start looking for a new country, so at this time I will not be doing any serious research on the subject, and instead I will be placing my hopes on the Supreme Court. If we lose in the court system I will start financial preparations for an exodus by 2014. I will not tolerate what the U.S. will become after this law takes full effect. To me America is an idea more than a location, and the American ideal will remain alive in my mind, whether or not it remains alive on the North American continent.
bttt
McCollum is going to be on FOX with Bill Hemmer in a bit.
I called McCollum’s office this morning to thank him for standing firm on our rights as a STATE under the constitution.
Our RAT refused. He’s running for governor, bye bye Goddard.
Well, its the GOP’s job to GET HIM IN COURT!
This not about Health Care, its not even about taxes anymore.
Its about the very soul and survival of the last best hope for mankind - America and America’s experiment in a democratic Republic.
If this bastard and the socialists who surround him have their way, our children and our children’s children will be growing up in a third world, third rate, socialist, economic backwater.
He has got to be stopped.
Yeah, well, and I’d like to see Johns Hopkins and all our great MD hospitals leave and go to TX. Fat chance. Guess it’ll have to be a hard decision.
ROTFLMAO Good impression of an ignorant liberal. You almost had me believing you were that dumb LOL
I’m living in a Red State with a Blue AG. http://law.ga.gov/02/ago/home/0,2705,87670814,00.html
As far as I know, there is no federal mandate in any comparable law. The proponents of the law bring up car insurance for drivers as a mandate, but that’s a state mandate, not federal. And no one is mandated to enroll in and accept medicare or medicaid. I think there is a pretty clear set of grounds for this lawsuit to proceed. Anything not permitted in the constitution is reserved for the states, and since this is nowhere in the constitution, it’s a states-rights issue. I predict the lawsuit goes ahead and goes pretty far. Can’t say it will win, but if I were betting I’d say there’s greater than a 50% chance that the states win.
“So is our RAT AG from OK — that shows how bad it is.”
And our RINO AG from blue Washington State!
“I’d love to see hundreds of PERSONAL lawsuits against Reid, Pelsi, Hoyer, and Obutthole.
Are their any legal funds being set up that we can fund?”
Legal funds will also be important when individuals and classes of people start to resist this so-called law. (Socialist morons.)
You left out “through a picket fence” part.
“I HAVE LOST FAITH.”
Don’t lose faith! We are soldiering on! Tell you what, fight with us through 11/2010, and then re-evaluate...
You’re right. That is what will happen. When this has been tried before it never works. If it worked then states could opt out of following Supreme Court rulings, etc. The Supreme court itself would rule against them. No question.
You’re right. That is what will happen. When this has been tried before it never works. If it worked then states could opt out of following Supreme Court rulings, etc. The Supreme court itself would rule against them. No question.
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