Posted on 03/18/2010 6:18:42 AM PDT by MarkLevinFan
Not so fast. Democrats poised to use the so-called "deem and pass" strategy to force through a health care bill will have to deal with Mark Levin first. Levin, known to his fans as one of the most popular talk show hosts in the country, is also both a legal scholar and longtime president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm A former chief of staff to Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Levin is the author of two New York Times bestselling books on the Constitution and the judiciary, the last, Liberty and Tyranny, at number one for a dozen weeks. The lawsuit will name President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and "other relevant cabinet members" as defendants. Those cabinet members are Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Levin's goal? To stop the government from "instituting this unconstitutional contrivance."
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Here’s hoping Mark has good bodyguard protection.
People are catching on. That is good!
YHello! BTTT
But Mark, you don’t understand. Healthcare is a civil RIGHT.
I thank God for Mark Levin.
Well someone needs to stop “DEMON PASS”!1
If the left hurts or kills any of our leadership... you can bet all that you own that war will come.
LLS
A couple of quick questions, if you happen to check into this thread:
How likely is it for a federal court to grant you standing in this case?
Assuming that you do have standing, how can a federal court declare a Congressional rule unconstitutional when the constitution grants the Congress the power to make its own rules?
I feel like I've tumbled down the rabbit-hole.....
With this criminal caste in the White Hut and the House I don’t think they will have to use the Demon Pass manuver. They are twisting arms and buying votes that will be paid off in future legislation and we will never know what happened.
That's exactly what I'm afraid of!
TAKE THIS BILL, TURN IT SIDEWAYS AND SHOVE IT STRAIT UP YOUR....
Man it’s great to imagine Mark treating Pelosi as a hostile witness. Hopefully there will be video
Conservative Big Picture Inman ping.
Godspeed Mark. I don’t like living in a banana republic. Hell, I don’t even like bananas!
Thank God for people like Mark Levin... notice that no Republican in congress has thrown down the gauntlet and said “over my dead body you’ll do this”. They only say things like, “this is crazy”. I take that back Michelle Bauchman is fighting, yet the old curmudgeons are saying, “this is crazy”.
Even if Levin isn't granted standing on his own behalf, he will likely be able to join in (in some fashion) on an action filed by GOP Senators and Representatives, who will almost certainly be dropping off the paperwork the instant the bill is signed.
Assuming that you do have standing, how can a federal court declare a Congressional rule unconstitutional when the constitution grants the Congress the power to make its own rules?
They can set their own rules, but not in violation of the Constitution. There are already two rulings on the books (most recently 1997 or 1998, I forget specifically) where the USSC overturned a law because the House and Senate did no pass identical text -- that precedent will likely figure in greatly to this case.
Ann Coulter also has a great Con/Law mind. Man, If they worked together we might stand a chance!
Demon Pass...ain’t that a little town near the Superstition mountains in Az.?
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