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Another victory on the road to repeal of healthcare law

By Alliance Alert

Conn Carroll writing at The Heritage Foundation / The Foundry: "In the first substantive legal ruling on President Barack Obama?s health regulation law, U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson held that the Commonwealth of Virginia raised a valid substantive theory to challenge Obamacare and that its democratically passed Virginia Health Care Freedom Act provided it standing to challenge the federal individual mandate. On the issue of that mandate, Hudson wrote: 'Unquestionably, this regulation radically changes the landscape of health insurance coverage in America . . . No reported case from any federal appellate court has extended the Commerce Clause or the Tax Clause to include the regulation of a person?s decision not to purchase a product, notwithstanding its effect on interstate commerce.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).