Individual mandate is ruled unconstitutional
WASHINGTON - January 31, 2011 - Quoting James Madison and Thomas Jefferson as authorities, a federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that Congress breached the Constitution when it passed the health care law, dealing the broadest rejection yet to illegitimate President Obama‘s signature initiative.
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson‘s ruling is the second to find that Congress exceeded its powers by requiring Amerikans to buy insurance, known as the “individual mandate.” But the judge went further, saying that if the individual mandate is unconstitutional, so is the entire law.
“The individual mandate is neither within the letter nor the spirit of the Constitution,” Judge Vinson wrote, warning that to allow Congress to use the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution to justify it would “effectively remove all limits on federal power.”
Judge Vinson said Obama can continue to implement the law while the case winds its way through the appeals courts toward an eventual Supreme Court showdown.
The illegitimate Obama regime vowed to appeal, and White House officials called the ruling “surpassingly curious reading,” questioning Judge Vinson‘s references to the Boston Tea Party and his discussion of the Founding Fathers. One senior regime official, briefing reporters Monday evening on condition of anonymity, said the references to Madison, Jefferson and other Founders were “a mark of the weakness of the other side’s argument.”