The very reason VA sued was to try to get the federal judiciary to deem the mandate unconstitutional. Virginia knew that their law could not stop the federal government from enforcing the mandate. If let’s say hypothetically that the VA law could actually protect its citizens from the federal individual mandate then they would not have put up the resources or time to challenge the law in federal court to begin with or have a need to challenge the federal mandate in court.
One last thing is that the parts of the Virginia law that do not conflict with the federal law still would remain. It is just that the key portion of the Virginia law that conflicts with the federal mandate is basically voided and unenforceable due to being trumped by the federal law. So the net sum of the matter is that Virginians despite their state law still have to abide by Obama Care. But in the end everything will be simplified when this matter goes before the Supreme Court. Let’s just hope they deem the mandate unconstitutional!
“The very reason VA sued was to try to get the federal judiciary to deem the mandate unconstitutional. Virginia knew that their law could not stop the federal government from enforcing the mandate. If let’s say hypothetically that the VA law could actually protect its citizens from the federal individual mandate then they would not have put up the resources or time to challenge the law in federal court to begin with or have a need to challenge the federal mandate in court.”
If that is true, then there is no hope to save nether our republic nor our freedom.
No Constitution of civil Government can ever long stand upon the mere discretion of that same Government’s power-welding leaders. Indeed such a Government is at best a boundless democracy, and inevitably in time an ever more despotic oligarchy.
You better hope your wrong, cause if your not there can be no peaceful resolution to our evermore pressing problem.