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To: Agamemnon
Apprently you went to bed too early a few weeks ago when Cuccinelli was on Greta...

"Apprently" I did, and apparently you missed Mark Levin talking about precedents where the courts have found portions of laws unconstitutional without overturning the entire law. Let's just watch and see what happens. Don't put your faith in the courts, we need to win this in Congress.

35 posted on 10/08/2010 4:01:11 PM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: 3niner
"Apprently" I did, and apparently you missed Mark Levin talking about precedents where the courts have found portions of laws unconstitutional without overturning the entire law. Let's just watch and see what happens. Don't put your faith in the courts, we need to win this in Congress.

Since you fail to mention it in your post, you don't appear to have any appreciation for the meaning of term, severability, and why it is significant.

"McCain-Feingold," had the severability clauses, so while some of it was thrown out by USSC other portions survived. Obamacare failed to make any provision for severability. Therein lies its fatal weakness

There's no reason to have faith per se in the courts, but given that there are thousands of pages in that bill, and that it was so clumsily put together one is is certain to find plenty of examples of un-costitutionality.

If Virginia alone wins its case, the law fails entirely.

It's past your bedtime....


39 posted on 10/08/2010 4:33:43 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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