{"id":2109,"date":"2010-08-03T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2010-08-03T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T07:04:19","slug":"virginias_court_challenge_of_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Virginia&#8217;s Court Challenge Of Obamacare Moves Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/federal-judge-denies-holder-request-to-dismiss-obamacare-constitutionality-challenge-99768809.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Judge Henry Hudson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia today denied the motion by the U.S. Department of Justice that Virginia&#8217;s challenge of the constitutionality of Obamacare be dismissed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is the first of many challenges to Obamacare.&nbsp; Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed the case on the basis that the requirement that every American purchase a government-approved health insurance policy exceeds the government&#8217;s authority under the Commerce clause of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;Specifically, the Court wrote that &#8216;[n]o reported case from any federal appellate court has extended the Commerce Clause or Tax Clause to include the regulation of a person&#8217;s decision not to purchase a product, notwithstanding its effect on interstate commerce.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;The Virginia AG added that &#8220;this lawsuit is not about health care, it&#8217;s about our freedom and about standing up and calling on the federal government to follow the ultimate law of the land&#8211;the Constitution&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;For that reason, he said, &#8220;the government cannot draft an unwilling citizen into commerce just so it can regulate him under the Commerce Clause.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;A summary judgment hearing is scheduled for October 18.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is a case that will impact the freedom of every American.&nbsp; It will also indicate whether or not we are still a country governed by our Constitution.&nbsp; It is a very important case.&nbsp; We need a new Congress that will REPEAL AND REPLACE this horrible law, but we also need to make sure an unconstitutional healthcare bill cannot be passed in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;reported: &#8220;Judge Henry Hudson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia today denied the motion by the U.S. Department of Justice that Virginia&#8217;s challenge of the constitutionality of Obamacare be dismissed.&#8221; This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}