Tag Archives: U.S. Constitution

Judge strikes down healthcare reform law

(Reuters) – A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the reform law’s so-called individual mandate went too far in requiring that Americans start buying health [...]

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Virginia judge rules health care mandate unconstitutional

BREAKING NEWS……… (CNN) – A Virginia federal judge on Monday found a key part of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care reform law unconstitutional, setting the stage for a protracted legal struggle likely to wind up in the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson struck down the “individual mandate” requiring most Americans to purchase [...]

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Obama conducting ‘reign of terror’ against suspected White House leakers

[Editor's Commentary:  Some of the information in the following excerpt has been widely reported in the press, most notably President Obama's bizarre "scoop the poop" comment at Brown University, which caused my jaw to drop about a quarter of an inch when I first read about it.  Some of the material was obtained "on deep [...]

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Obamacare: The President’s Wooden-Headed Interpretation of Our Constitution

By: Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski In chapter 4 of our book, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency, we make the point that Team Obama would try to pull a fast one when it comes to Obamacare’s individual mandate that everyone reading this blog post needs to buy [...]

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Gun case presents quandary for Supreme Court justices

As a member of the Junior ROTC, teenager Antonin Scalia toted his rifle on the subway ride back and forth to Queens. As a hunter, he speaks lyrically of stalking wild turkeys. And as a justice, he may have reached the pinnacle of his more than two decades on the Supreme Court when he wrote [...]

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Hatch: Healthcare bill ‘rich’ for challenges on constitutionality

By Tony Romm Democrats’ healthcare legislation is a “target-rich environment” for constitutional challenges and legal battles, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wrote on Saturday. The bill’s provisions for an insurance coverage mandate, a manifest Medicaid expansion and new insurance exchange all violate key sections of the country’s guiding legal document, wrote the senator in the Wall [...]

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