Attorneys are expecting a Florida judge to contribute another favorable ruling in their fight against Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.
Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University's Law School, says Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. Northern District Court has indicated he is likely to reject the law and "even the scorecard" on legal challenges to the law.
Matt Staver"Based upon what the judge in Florida has written before, he was pretty sarcastic and critical of the administration and how this healthcare bill came about," Staver accounts. "Some of the comments that he's made during this argument lead me to [believe] that he's going to rule the same way that the recent ruling came down in Virginia,." In that case, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson decided Congress has no authority to force people to purchase health insurance. (See earlier story)
The Liberty Counsel founder suggests that forcing the nation's citizens to purchase healthcare is equivalent to a government-issued mandate that its citizens purchase broccoli because it is a healthy food.
But several of the cases that are being presented against ObamaCare are headed to the Supreme Court, where "they may be ultimately argued together on the same day," Staver explains. "They're not going to be consolidated because each case has something different."
He believes the Supreme Court will ultimately decide to strike down the healthcare reform law enacted earlier this year.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: December 20, 2010
