Health care law faces first constitutional battle in Virginia courtroom

wapo ^ | 7/1/10 | Rosalind Helderman

[Nachum]

The legal challenge to the federal health care law will begin in earnest this morning, as Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli lobs the nation's first constitutional arguments against the law in a federal courtroom in Richmond.

Cuccinelli and his team will get an hour to argue to a federal judge that the law is an unprecedented overreach by Washington that turns the Founders' intention for a limited federal government on its head. The Obama administration will likewise get an hour to argue Cuccinelli's suit is frivolous and should be tossed from court.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Recovering_Democrat]

If I were the judge, this would take about 5 minutes. I’d issue a stay on all federal taxes and efforts to enforce this unconstitutional law (including the incredibly ignorant suntan tax). Case closed.

[Hoodat]

GO GO CUCCINELLI !!!

[mikelets456]

But what is wrong with the Federal Government forcing us to do things we don’t have to?

(Sarc)

[oyez]

We will all soon have a little microchip attached to our brain so the Federal Government can direct us rather than force us. (hopefully sarc)