Virginia Calls Health Bill Unconstitutional, Files Suit

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Virginia

Calls Health Bill Unconstitutional, Files Suit Attorney General: At no time in our history has the

government mandated its citizens buy a good or service Steve

Watson Prisonplanet.com Monday,

March 22nd, 2010

 

 

 

 

The State of Virginia

has confirmed that it will sue the federal government over the health

care reform bill, declaring the legislation unconstitutional and

legally conflicting.

The Attorney General of Virginia, Ken

Cuccinelli, issued a statement last night, giving notification that the

State will file suit as soon as the president signs the bill into law,

later this week.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that

Cuccinelli is expected to argue that the bill violates the commerce

clause of the U.S. Constitution:

At no time in our history has the government

mandated its citizens buy a good or service, Cuccinellis statement

explained.

We believe the federal law is

unconstitutional as it is based on the commerce clause. Simply put, not

buying insurance is not engaging in commerce, the attorney general

added.

If you are not engaged in commerce, the

federal government cannot regulate this inaction. Just being alive is

not interstate commerce. If it were, Congress could regulate every

aspect of our lives.

The suit will also raise the notion that the

legislation creates a legal conflict between the federal government and

Virginia, the only State so far that has passed a law ruling that its

residents are not mandated to buy health insurance.

The final reform bill mandates that every

American must purchase health insurance before 2014 or pay a fine.

On the evening the House passed the reform

219-212, all five Republican representatives in Virginia voted against

the bill (Rep. Eric Cantor, Rep. Robert J. Wittman, Rep. J. Randy

Forbes, Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, and Rep. Frank R. Wolfe), along with

two Democrats (Rep. Glenn Nye, and Rep. Rick Boucher).

Rep. Eric Cantor described the bill as a

trillion-dollar overhaul that would reduce freedom of choice, raise

taxes, and increase the national debt.

Its the latest part of an agenda that is

being forced upon the American people that attempts to seize more

control over the economy and our lives, Cantor said on the House floor

before the vote.

Watch

Cantors speech

Virginia isnt the only state looking to the

courts on this issue. Last week, the State of Idaho passed a measure

requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if

residents are forced to buy health insurance.

Similar legislation is also pending in 37

other states.

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We , as individuals, need to turn to our state governments to take powers from the federal government and to return us to the system that led us to becoming the world's most successful country, We need to re-form a Union of States in competition and cooperation with each other with the Fed overseeing (refereeing) interstate commerce.

 

Seceding from the Union is not an answer - re-forming that Union is an answer. The Fed should not be able to tax individuals, The States should collect taxes from individuals and pass on only a management fee for supervising, but not controlling, activities within and between the states.

 

Let's start by impeaching statesmen with legal issues they have developed while in office, voting out incumbents or enforcing term limits. Let's make it possible that both the Democratic and Republican parties be supplanted by more libertarian or state's-rights parties. Sounds crazy and impossible? Read your history books: crazy and impossible things occur with regularity.

 

Let's start by supporting these crazy Virginians.

 

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Virginia Calls Health Bill Unconstitutional, Files Suit Attorney General: “At no time in our history has the government mandated its citizens buy a good or service†Steve Watson Prisonplanet. com Monday, March 22nd, 2010

 

 

 

The State of Virginia has confirmed that it will sue the federal government over the health care reform bill, declaring the legislation unconstitutional and legally conflicting.

The Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, issued a statement last night, giving notification that the State will file suit as soon as the president signs the bill into law, later this week.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Cuccinelli is expected to argue that the bill violates the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution:

“At no time in our history has the government mandated its citizens buy a good or service,†Cuccinelli’s statement explained.

“We believe the federal law is unconstitutional as it is based on the commerce clause. Simply put, not buying insurance is not engaging in commerce,†the attorney general added.

“If you are not engaged in commerce, the federal government cannot regulate this inaction. Just being alive is not interstate commerce. If it were, Congress could regulate every aspect of our lives.â€

The suit will also raise the notion that the legislation creates a legal conflict between the federal government and Virginia, the only State so far that has passed a law ruling that its residents are not mandated to buy health insurance.

The final reform bill mandates that every American must purchase health insurance before 2014 or pay a fine.

On the evening the House passed the reform 219-212, all five Republican representatives in Virginia voted against the bill (Rep. Eric Cantor, Rep. Robert J. Wittman, Rep. J. Randy Forbes, Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, and Rep. Frank R. Wolfe), along with two Democrats (Rep. Glenn Nye, and Rep. Rick Boucher).

Rep. Eric Cantor described the bill as a “trillion-dollar overhaul†that would reduce freedom of choice, raise taxes, and increase the national debt.

“It’s the latest part of an agenda that is being forced upon the American people that attempts to seize more control over the economy and our lives,†Cantor said on the House floor before the vote.

Watch Cantor’s speech

Virginia isn’t the only state looking to the courts on this issue. Last week, the State of Idaho passed a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

Similar legislation is also pending in 37 other states.