Texas judge blocks ObamaCare requirement that taxpayers fund sex change operations

On New Year’s Eve, Texas Federal Judge Reed O’Connor issued “…a nationwide, preliminary injunction to block a new Obamacare mandate requiring taxpayers to fund transgender reassignment surgeries and abortions.”

When the Affordable Care Act was written, the word “Sex” was used to describe an individual’s actual sex—that is, whether they were biologically a male or a female. The left, however, found this rather too restrictive given today’s grey area lottery of self-designated genetic wonders and sexual deviates.

Representing Texas as one of the plaintiffs in the case against Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton persuaded Judge O’Connor that the Obama Administration had crossed the line when it “…attempt[ed] to redefine the law so that the term ‘sex’ means one’s ‘internal sense of gender.’

As Breitbart’s Lana Shadwick puts it, “…the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services implemented a new rule that defined the term “sex” in the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) to include a state of mind, not a biological fact.”

And Judge O’Connor was having none of that as he issued an injunction which applies not only in favor of the plaintiffs, but nationwide.

The Department of Health and Human Services displayed the breathtaking arrogance of its boss by simply re-writing the Affordable Care Act; that is, by “correcting” or expanding specific language which interfered with Executive branch advancement of the leftist agenda.

“We can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act...

With all due respect to the referenced judge, where unconstitutional Obamacare is concerned, judges should be pointing out that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Patriots need to support Trump in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

After unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then the states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues that they don’t know what to do with, establishing their own healthcare programs and improving public schooling for starters, depending on what the legal majority voters of a given state want.

Patriots need to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

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