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Not Since President Andrew Jackson defied the Supreme Court has a president of the United states ignored a judicial ruling. Federal Judge Vinson ruled this week that the entire Obamacare law was unconstitutional, yet the Obama Administration is continuing to implement the law. Unless Obama applies for and is granted a stay, Obama is in contempt of court, and we have a dictatorship in America. If this were not bad enough, today another federal court found the Obama Administration in contempt for its continuing ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf:

For discussion's sake, let's just concede that every four years or so the American public is fooled into voting for a demagogue who's mastered a pleasant-sounding, market-tested populism. Let's then imagine -- this is for discussion only -- that this person's resulting agenda, cheery but mildly authoritarian, passes with public support. Does the federal court system exist to rubber stamp legislation? Should they check in and see if it's cool with the public? Or do we have courts to decide the constitutionality of laws? Do we insulate judges from democracy for a reason? Do we have a Constitution to keep...

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Monday praised a Florida federal judge's ruling that the health-care overhaul is unconstitutional, saying "liberty has scored another victory." "I am heartened by the fact that another federal judge has found that the individual mandate forcing citizens to buy private health insurance is unconstitutional," Cuccinelli said in a statement.

"At a time when there is virtually unanimous agreement that health care reform is needed in this country, it is hard to invalidate and strike down a statute titled 'The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,' " Judge Roger Vinson observed Monday in his ruling in Florida v. HHS, which did just that. It would have been a lot harder had ObamaCare enjoyed wide political support. But it did not and does not. Americans never bought the bill of goods that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and their supporters in the formerly mainstream media tried to sell. A good deal of...

The decision by federal judge Roger Vinson striking down President Obama's signature health care law effectively ends ObamaCare unless some higher court overturns it. In spite of this overwhelming rebuke of the law, some Birkenstock-wearing legal analysts are trying to argue that Vinson's ruling could be ignored by the administration. That's why this week's action by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is so significant. Van Hollen has taken the proper step of following the law, which now says that ObamaCare is unconstitutional in its entirety, relieving Wisconsin of any obligation to follow it. It is the responsibility of every...

My guess is that Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Fla., is an amateur zoologist. Judge Vinson is the federal judge who ruled Monday that those who confected Obamacare cannot compel the citizenry to buy health insurance. Moreover, he found that the way the 2,700-page law was created, without any “severability clause,” makes the entire law unconstitutional. The authors of Obamacare declared that without mandatory insurance, the whole bill was unworkable. Mandatory insurance is not severable from the law. Hence, Judge Vinson threw out the whole law because of the way it was constructed. Now it...

How did Obama ever think that his program would pass constitutional muster? How could he imagine that the Interstate Commerce clause could cover something that wasn’t interstate (health insurance cannot be sold over state lines) and wasn’t commerce (failure to buy insurance is not commerce) would stand up in court? He was so sure that he would win any constitutional challenge that he arrogantly failed to put a severability clause in the bill so that it would survive even if parts were stricken down. The decision of the Florida District Court may or may not prevail in the Circuit Court....

In light of Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional, Wisconsin’s attorney general, J. B. Van Hollen, has declared the Badger State free of any obligations imposed by the law. “Judge Vinson declared the health care law void and stated in his decision that a declaratory judgment is the functional equivalent of an injunction,” Hollen says in a statement. “This means that, for Wisconsin, the federal health care law is dead — unless and until it is revived by an appellate court.”

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: It appears, ladies and gentlemen, the regime is just going to ignore the judge's ruling. We go now to... Polito.. "What's the administration gonna do?"CUMMINGS: I think the administration is just going to move forward and hope for the best and hope that they get the ruling that they argue they deserve. Clearly this judge in Florida went further than anyone else did, and basically put the entire issue of the law now before the Supreme Court once the case gets there. But the Supreme Court would have had the ability to review the whole law anyway....

<p>It’s well known that Judge Roger Vinson ruled yesterday that the individual mandate exceeded the powers of the federal government under the Commerce Clause. But he also ruled that because the law lacked a severability clause and the law’s proponents had argued that the individual mandate was a necessary part of the scheme, the entire law was invalid.</p>

All 47 Republican Senators now support S.192, a bill to repeal ObamaCare. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) introduced the bill last Wednesday. The Senate bill mirrors the repeal legislation passed by the House earlier this month. The following GOP senators were the last ones to sign on as co-sponsors of S. 192: Lamar Alexander (TN), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Chuck Grassley (IA), John Hoeven (ND), Richard Lugar (IN), and Lisa Murkowski (AK).  Certainly, Judge Vinson's ruling on Monday helped to sway some of these stragglers. Recall that in November Sen. DeMint had joined with 31 other Republican senators in...

I didn't see a live thread, so I thought I'd start one. Anyone else watching?

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your LOVE by comparing it with the earnestness of others. 2 Cor 8:8 America’s winds had the fresh air of Freedom on Monday. How surprising as it turns out the rag tag Tea Partiers were right about Socialized Medicine and the Ivy League professor types were wrong. After being lectured for the last two years and Nazi Pelosi marching through the Tea Party defiantly w/her oversized hammer, Judge Vinson gave them all a Founding Father sized pounding. Obamacare was thrown out for the purchase mandate which now...

Nice review of how Judge Vinson struck "down the entire health-reform law on the grounds that the individual mandate was not severable from the rest of the statute." And yes I performed a search on the title words "nuts and bolts"

Reverberations of a Florida judge's ruling that the federal health care law is unconstitutional are spreading throughout the country, with supporters and opponents of the overhaul using the decision to draw their lines in the sand. In Washington, Republican senators called the ruling a "second stake in ObamaCare" and immediately introduced repeal legislation with plans for a vote today. Nationwide, attorneys general, governors and consumer groups debated the impact of the ruling on changes that have already taken place and those in the works. Florida officials made their direction clear: We will not move forward to implement this law. Insurance...

If the President can mandate Obamacare for Americans, can he also demand that they eat broccoli as often as Michelle decides is necessary? As silly as that may sound, it goes along with that saying about a camel getting its nose under the tent. First the nose, then the head, then the whole body that ends up completely occupying the canvas shelter.

Officials won’t implement health care lawBy JANET ZINK - Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau Updated: Wednesday, Feb. 02, 2011 TALLAHASSEE -- Reverberations of a Florida judge’s ruling that the federal health care law is unconstitutional are spreading throughout the country, with supporters and opponents of the overhaul using the decision to draw their lines in the sand. In Washington, Republican senators called the ruling a “second stake in ObamaCare” and immediately introduced repeal legislation with plans for a Wednesday vote. Nationwide, attorneys general, governors and consumer groups debated the impact of the ruling on changes that have already taken place and those...

The federal court in the massive 26-state challenge to ObamaCare on Monday held that the health care law's individual mandate is unconstitutional. And, even more importantly, the judge accepted the argument in my court brief that the mandate cannot be separated from the rest of this 2,700-page legislative monstrosity, and struck down the entire law. Roger Vinson, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the judge presiding over this case, did so because of a single word: Severability. A single law usually contains many different provisions. Lawmakers know that if someone challenges the constitutionality of a...

While America faces a constitutional crisis as Obama considers thumbing his haughty nose at Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling, we’re being told that the man-child president actually convinced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step aside in the name of democracy. Yeah, right!

Following the ruling today out of the Northern District Court in Florida on the Affordable Care Act, Tracy Schmaler, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs released the following statement: Home » Briefing Room » The Justice Blog Printer Friendly Icon Printer Friendly The Justice Blog On the Northern District Court in Florida’s Affordable Care Act Ruling January 31st, 2011 Posted by Tracy Russo Following the ruling today out of the Northern District Court in Florida on the Affordable Care Act, Tracy Schmaler, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs released the following statement: “The department intends to...