{"id":15771,"date":"2012-10-02T07:09:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15771"},"modified":"2012-10-02T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:09:24","slug":"the-challenges-to-obamacare-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15771","title":{"rendered":"The Challenges To ObamaCare Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/10\/01\/supreme-court-opens-door-to-another-challenge-to-obamacare\/\">Fox News<\/a> reported yesterday that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Supreme court\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supreme_court\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">the Supreme Court<\/a> may be taking another case regarding <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaCare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Liberty University, a Christian college in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Virginia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.5,-79.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=37.5,-79.0 (Virginia)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a>, has been fighting the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health insurance mandate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_insurance_mandate\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">employer mandate<\/a> since the law was enacted, while challenging the law on other constitutional grounds.\u00a0The school got as far as the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.53769,-77.43481&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=37.53769,-77.43481 (United%20States%20Court%20of%20Appeals%20for%20the%20Fourth%20Circuit)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">4th Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a>, which refused to hear the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Merit (legal)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merit_%28legal%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">merits of the case<\/a>. That federal court decided that the original Liberty University lawsuit was barred because of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Anti-Injunction Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Injunction_Act\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Injunction Act<\/a>, which would block any challenge to a &#8220;tax&#8221; before a taxpayer actually pays it, in this case referring to the penalties associated with failing to obtain health insurance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the Anti-Injunction Act did not serve as a barrier to lawsuits challenging the health care law.\u00a0On that basis, Liberty University immediately petitioned the court to allow it to renew its original case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>On Monday, the Supreme Court noted the university&#8217;s renewed request and gave the administration 30 days to respond to the request, suggesting that the justices are taking the Liberty request seriously.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ObamaCare is bad law, and I suspect that if the majority party in Washington changes in November it will be repealed and replaced. I hope so.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=ec6d9a17-7469-4400-b9c1-e9f757f4a603\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reported yesterday that the Supreme Court may be taking another case regarding ObamaCare. The article reports: Liberty University, a Christian college in Virginia, has been fighting the employer mandate since the law was enacted, while challenging the law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4070,4071,1822,4069,3394,7,134,274,1413],"class_list":["post-15771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-injunction-act","tag-health-insurance-mandate","tag-john-roberts","tag-liberty-university","tag-monday","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-supreme-court","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15773,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions\/15773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}