Is the 4th Circuit considered conservative or left-leaning?
ok so if states can not sue and people can not sue who can?
BUMP
They made sure the courts were stacked before they let O fly in on his magic carpet.
The courts have been so twisted by special interests that there is no such thing as justice.
Oh, I alomost orgot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
Cut, paste and send to you email contacts ASAP.
The courts are part of the Fedgov, and few judges want to bite the hand that feeds them.
If states don’t have standing, it seems no one does. The case claims that individual citizens do but that it is a tax. If it is a tax, the citizen won’t have a general taxpayer standing (that doesn’t exist according to the Supreme Court) to challenge it. If it is a commerce issue, as it likely is, it is indeed the state that has standing. To simplify this:
Regulation of commerce- state may sue
Tax- no one may sue under this case
I don’t really understand this, so I’ll be sure to listen to TGO today for what I know will be a thorough explanation, well-grounded in the law.
This is good news.
No lower court or Appeals court is going to decide Obamacare, and Hussein is running out the clock.
This will get the issue to SCOTUS sooner!
I have a question: Just exactly who does the legal system thinks has “standing”? I’ve heard this citizen has no standing and that citizen has no standing. Now it is states that have no standing.
The jury box has now been passed.
By saying Virgina has no right to sue, the Federal employees in black robes are effectively upholding the Virginia law outlawing enforcement of the individual mandate.
Virgina should make hast to send a letter to every federal IRS agent in the state warning them of arrest and jail time should they attempt to rob a citizen of Virgina of his or her right to health self-determination.
I look forward to seeing IRS agents siting in a cold Virgina Jail cell.
Does that mean the Federal Government cannot sue a state?
I am so confused.....what is the next step?
re: “...But the court on Thursday stopped short of ruling whether the individual mandate in the health care law is constitutional; it strictly examined Virginia’s right to sue. ..”
Does a state have any recourse against the federal government?
(Like I said, I am so confused...)
Well, if they dismissed the appeal, that would mean the lower court ruling will stand.
I’m saying this purely based on the article. I haven’t read the ruling nor do I have time to do so right now.
Bump