It smacks of nullification and we remember what happened the last time SC implemented nullification, don't we.
How do you think Obama would respond to such a monumental display of disrespect?
SC isn’t prohibiting the feds from coming in and implementing the law. The ruling just prohibits state resources to be used.
the end result may indeed be the same, but there is a HUGE difference between an issue that comes before a State court which then rules, and a law that is passed by the State legislature and signed by the Governor. The State law can only be trumped by the Constitution, and we know that Obamacare is not in the Constitution.
It seems to me that the passage of State laws goes straight to the heart of State Sovereignty, whereas rulings by State courts are less sovereign given that they can be overturned by the Supreme Court.