More on a story we first reported Friday. Gay-obsessed, far right wing Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will file suit against the federal government claiming that the health-care reform legislation is unconstitutional, reports the Times Dispatch.
Word of the impending legal action came as the U.S. House debated
late into the evening and passed the landmark reform legislation,
219-212. The votes of the House delegation from Virginia mirrored those cast
when Obama's health-reform package first came up for a vote in November. Four of Virginia's six Democratic congressmen supported the $940
billion bill: Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-3rd, Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th,
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-11th, and Rep. James P. Moran, D-8th.Cuccinelli is expected to argue that the
bill, with its mandate that requires nearly every American to be insured
by 2014, violates the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. The
attorney general's office will file suit once President Barack Obama
signs the bill into law, which could occur early this week."At no time in our history has the government mandated its citizens
buy a good or service," Cuccinelli said in a statement last night.
Cuccinelli's action is the first of an aggressive, multi-prong strategy by Republicans to nullify health care reform, adds the New York Times. "Republicans said they would seek to repeal the measure, challenge its constitutionality and coordinate efforts in statehouses to block its implementation. ... Attorneys general in three states—Virginia, Florida and South Carolina—have indicated they will file legal challenges to the measure, arguing that its requirement that individuals buy insurance is a violation of the Constitution."
In somewhat unrelated news: Cuccinelli said in a television news interview that "homosexual acts" are harmful to society. Keep it classy, Ken.
There is an LGBT protest of Virginia AG Cuccinelli on Tuesday at George Mason University School of Law at 4P. Facebook info HERE.
Since they find that unconstitutional, I wonder what they have to say about forcing people to have car insurance?
Posted by: Osiris | 22 March 2010 at 12:40