To conservatives, the biggest strike against Mitt Romney is the health care plan he put in place in Massachusetts, but Newt Gingrich lavished praise on Romney’s plan after it was passed in 2006. “We agree entirely with Governor Romney and Massachusetts legislators that our goal should be 100 percent insurance coverage for all Americans,” Gingrich [...]
Now that the Supreme Court has officially taken up the question of Obamacare, we are in store for even more legal analyses attempting to predict which way the justices will rule, or argue which way they ought to rule. A quick prediction of my own: Few, if any, of these analyses will be as worthless [...]
Case 11-50814 [Texas Medical Providers, et al v. David Lakey, et al], Non Dispositive Court Order Documents Docket Text: COURT ORDER granting motions to file amicus brief [6945063-2], [6944082-2], [6943797-2], [6943381-2], [6939945-2] filed by Texas Alliance for Life Trust Fund, Dan Patrick, Sid Miller, Association of American Physicians & Surgeons Inc, Ralph Wiegman, American Center [...]
RICHMOND — A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Virginia’s legal challenge to the federal health care overhaul without addressing the issue at the heart of the state’s lawsuit. The Richmond-based appeals court ruled Thursday that Virginia does not have the legal standing to contest a key provision of [...]
A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed one of the highest-profile challenges to President Obama’s healthcare reform law. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) does not have a legal right to sue over the law’s requirement that most people buy insurance. The court vacated a lower court’s ruling [...]
President Barack Obama’s pride-and-joy health-care reform law (aka the Affordable Care Act of 2010) suffered a super setback Friday when an appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to force all Americans to purchase medical insurance or pay penalties. Reuters reported, “The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, ruled 2 to [...]
The White House wasted no time before it denounced Friday’s federal court decision that the individual mandate portion of President Obama’s much-touted health care reform law is unconstitutional. The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, ruled today that the individual mandate is an unconstitutional extension of power by Congress. The [...]
Eyeing a potential 5-4 decision on President Obama’s Affordable Care health care reforms, some Democratic lawmakers are trying to pressure Justice Clarence Thomas to sit out any health care case that may come before the Supreme Court. And in an added tack to influence the court’s decision-making, one election watchdog has demanded an FBI probe [...]
