{"id":7361,"date":"2010-10-14T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2010-10-14T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:17:58","slug":"federal-court-rejects-obama-administration-effort-to-dismiss-states-obamacare-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7361\/federal-court-rejects-obama-administration-effort-to-dismiss-states-obamacare-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING:  Federal Court Rejects Obama Administration Effort to Dismiss States&#8217; ObamaCare Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a refreshing victory today for individual freedom, the concept of federalism and Constitutional principles, a federal judge in Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/10\/14\/federal-judge-allows-multi-state-suit-health-care-law-proceed\/\" target=\"_blank\">rejected<\/a> the Obama Justice Department&#8217;s request to dismiss the challenge by 20 states against ObamaCare&#8217;s unconstitutional provisions.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the states can proceed in their argument that ObamaCare&#8217;s individual mandate, which forces citizens to engage in involuntary commercial transactions by purchasing insurance, violates the Constitution.\u00a0 The Obama Administration, which couldn&#8217;t seem to decide whether ObamaCare passed Constitutional muster as a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/george\/2009\/09\/obama-mandate-is-not-a-tax.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;tax&#8221;<\/a> or under some other convenient authority, contended that the challenge should be thrown out in its entirety.\u00a0 With this preliminary legal victory, the case can now proceed toward trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a refreshing victory today for individual freedom, the concept of federalism and Constitutional principles, a federal judge in Florida rejected the Obama Justice Department&#8217;s request to dismiss the challenge by 20 states against ObamaCare&#8217;s unconstitutional provisions. Among other things, Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the states can proceed in their argument that ObamaCare&#8217;s individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,59,83,12,465,485,24,35,28],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-constitution","tag-deficit","tag-freedom-minute","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-lawsuit","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7376,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions\/7376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}