{"id":4279,"date":"2010-03-17T18:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2010-03-17T18:41:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:41:42","slug":"lawsuit-planned-to-challenge-slaughter-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4279\/lawsuit-planned-to-challenge-slaughter-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Planned to Challenge &#8220;Slaughter Solution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative radio talk show host and former Reagan Justice Department Chief of Staff, Marc Levin, is planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/62939 \" target=\"_blank\">challenge via lawsuit<\/a> Speaker Pelosi\u2019s use of the \u201cSlaughter Solution\u201d to \u201cdeem\u201d the Senate health care bill passed.\u00a0 Pelosi&#8217;s maneuver would pass the bill by voting to approve a rule that introduces it.\u00a0 A draft of the lawsuit can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/landmarklegal.org\/uploads\/Landmark%20Complaint%20%2800013086-2%29.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">here (pdf)<\/a>.\u00a0 Though it\u2019s likely the federal courts would refuse to hear the case under the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/political_question_doctrine\" target=\"_blank\">political question doctrine<\/a>, it would seem to be a bedrock constitutional issue whether \u201cdeeming\u201d a bill passed is the same as actually voting on it.\u00a0 Hopefully, we won\u2019t have to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative radio talk show host and former Reagan Justice Department Chief of Staff, Marc Levin, is planning to challenge via lawsuit Speaker Pelosi\u2019s use of the \u201cSlaughter Solution\u201d to \u201cdeem\u201d the Senate health care bill passed.\u00a0 Pelosi&#8217;s maneuver would pass the bill by voting to approve a rule that introduces it.\u00a0 A draft of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[465,967,111,968],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care-reform","tag-marc-levin","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-slaughter-solution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}