Lawsuit on President Obama's health plan likely going to trial

[cal04]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39177510/ns/health-health_care/

A federal judge said Tuesday he will likely dismiss only parts of a lawsuit by 20 states challenging the Obama administration's health care overhaul as unconstitutional, though he didn't specifically say what portions.

The Obama administration had asked U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson to dismiss the entire lawsuit. The states and the administration disagree over whether people should be required to have health insurance, and whether states should pay additional Medicaid costs not covered by the federal government.

The judge said he will issue a ruling by Oct. 14. The lawsuit is likely to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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"This court is free to disagree with Congress' policy judgments but it is not free to overturn 75 years of Constitutional law," he said.
( Ian Heath Gershengorn, deputy assistant attorney general.)

[JuniperLea]

1. Constitutional Law...

That's what it all boils down too... no matter who pressures whom.

[napi21]

2. GOOD. I WANT it to go to trial, all the way to the SCOTUS! nt

[Cal33]

5. If it does go to the SCOTUS, we know what the result is going to

be, don't we?

[prolesunited]

3. I thought the GOP hated activist judges?

[RC]

8. Only when it's not their activist judges.

But, you know that.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Judge Vinson is a Reagan apointee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vinson

[iamtechus]

6. "75 years of Constitutional law" -- What happened 75 yrs ago?

It is implied that some statute or court ruling from 75 yrs ago (1935) is being directly or indirectly challenged by the suit.

[Bitwit1234]

7. If it goes before the Supreme court we all know what that means

What I can't understand is how can any state challenge a federal law. So if this passes that means that we can refuse to pay income tax and the court can't do anything. And then look at each of the federal laws and refuse to obey them. a soldier then can't be ordered by the president to be deployed to combat can he.