Showing posts with label constitutionality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitutionality. Show all posts

Saturday, November 30, 2013

The courts still can pull the plug on Obamacare: Guest commentary

The fiasco of Obamacare’s rollout has finally sparked the nationwide debate that was short-circuited when Congress rushed to pass it in 2009. Back then, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told Americans: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”

Now, it’s becoming clear that what’s “in it” is hazardous to our health care system, including people’s freedom to choose the doctors and coverage they prefer.

However, Obamacare’s failures are even more fundamental: It was enacted in a way that ignored constitutional procedures and protections.

Read more at the Los Angeles Daily News Read More......

Monday, July 25, 2011

Barone: To Get a Mandate, GOP Must Win Another Election

By Michale Barone
Those who consider themselves constitutional conservatives should take care to consider not only the powers that the Constitution confers on the different branches of government and reserves to the states and the people, but also the schedule that the Constitution sets up for sharp changes and reversals of public policy. Read more at GOPUSA... Read More......

Monday, April 11, 2011

NYT: Justice Memo Upholds Libya Strikes

NEW YORK TIMES/CAUCUS, 4/7/2011 by Charlie Savage - President Obama had the constitutional power to lawfully launch military strikes in Libya without permission from Congress because he “could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest,” the Justice Department concluded in an internal memorandum released on Thursday. Read more at the NYT... Read More......

Monday, September 13, 2010

AT: ObamaCare's Fatal Flaw?

AMERICAN THINKER, 9/13/2010 by Louis Case -Scott Brown's election could be the most significant turning point in the whole ObamaCare fiasco. And not because it was an "expression of the will of the people" because, as we've learned, that doesn't matter to our Washington overlords. No, Brown's election has trapped Congress in its own sloppy arrogance. ∴ In a September 8th appearance on Greta Van Sustern's On The Record, Virginia's Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, explained the significance of the Brown victory in the context of Virginia's lawsuit to overturn ObamaCare. Read More at American Thinker... Read More......