Posted on 09/14/2010 12:48:40 PM PDT by tobyhill
A Florida judge said on Tuesday he would hear arguments on December 16 on a lawsuit by 20 U.S. states seeking to block President Barack Obama's overhaul of the healthcare system.
District Judge Roger Vinson, who is weighing a motion by the Justice Department to dismiss the lawsuit, set the followup hearing on the lawsuit led by Florida and involving 19 other states, which was originally filed in March by mostly Republican state attorneys general.
Vinson said he would formally rule on the dismissal motion by October 14, but Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said the judge had already strongly indicated that the case would not be dismissed.
"The judge's apparent decision today means we will proceed," McCollum told reporters.
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Obamacare is such a house of cards that pulling out any part would bring the whole thing down.
Would the next step be to seek an injunction to halt progress on enactment of Obamacare while the trial proceeds?
I love this.
Wasn't it passed by "mostly Democrat members of Congress" ?
They do this just to make themselves feel better. It's therapy.
Judge Vinson is a Reagan appointee.
yes, passed by mostly Democrat members of Congress, and opposed by mostly voters of all parties at a rate of 55 to 70% (which has not diminished since its passage)...
‘Judge Vinson is a Reagan appointee’...the Democrats have so polluted the federal judiciary with nutjob activists that we have to look up the curriculum vitae of these folks each time a major case comes up. The media will not mention it unless it suits their agenda.
***Judge Vinson is a Reagan appointee***
Thank you, I was just about to look that up.
If aiding and abeting treason wasn’t such a RAT pastime none of this healthcare scamm would go far.
Florida ping.
So was also Barbie Doll Sandra O’Connor???
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