In a highly-anticipated suit brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, District Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled that the individual mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional as it \u201cexceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hudson stopped short of blocking the law\u2019s implementation until a higher court acts, but said he expects the administration to honor his ruling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe final word will undoubtedly reside with a higher court,\u201d Hudson wrote in his ruling. \u201cIn this Court\u2019s view, the award of declaratory judgment is sufficient to stay the hand of the executive branch pending appellate review.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In light of today\u2019s ruling, the Obama Administration\u00a0should\u00a0immediately\u00a0cease implementation of the\u00a0unconstitutional\u00a0individual\u00a0mandate and\u00a0all other provisions of ObamCare\u00a0until the matter is fully resolved by the courts.\u00a0\u00a0If the Administration refuses to act, Congress should act\u00a0without delay\u00a0to\u00a0force the Administration\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that significant parts of ObamaCare are unconstitutional, including the\u00a0mandate requiring individuals to purchase health care insurance. As\u00a0Politico.com is reporting it: In a highly-anticipated suit brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, District Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled that the individual mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,311,2173,2172,485,35],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-judge-henry-e-hudson","tag-ken-cuccinelli","tag-lawsuit","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}