The Attorneys-General of 14 states have filed suit to prevent Obamacare from going into effect. Their argument? The health-care reform bill:
…has violated the states’ rights as “sovereigns and protectors of the freedom, health, and welfare of their citizens and residents.”
Along with outside counsellers from litigation experts at Baker Hostetler, the AGs are arguing that:
The Act represents an unprecedented encroachment on the liberty of individuals … by mandating that all citizens and legal residents … have qualifying healthcare coverage or pay a tax penalty. The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying healthcare coverage. … the Act exceeds the powers of the United States under Article I of the Constitution and violates the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
and,
…the tax penalty required under the Act, which must be paid by uninsured citizens and residents, constitutes an unlawful capitation or direct tax, in violation of Article I, sections 2 and 9 of the Constitution of the United States.
The 2400-page law that is Obamacare (PDF) mandating health insurance using fines and taxes as punishment can hardly be anything but unconstitutional.
Step 1 has started. Step 2 must go through in November by firing Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from their jobs as Speaker and Majority Leader, respectively. An even better option would be to send them packing to the private sector, which might just happen in Reid’s case.
