Judicial Activism and the Affordable Care Act
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:27 pmJudicial Activism and the Affordable Care Act
Posted by Stephanie Cutter on January 31, 2011 at 4:49 PM EST
Today, a judge in Florida issued a decision in a case filed by 25 Republican Attorneys General and Governors striking down the Affordable Care Act. This ruling is well out of the mainstream of judicial opinion. Twelve federal judges have already dismissed challenges to the constitutionality of the health reform law, and two judges – in the Eastern District of Michigan and Western District of Virginia – have upheld the law. In one other case, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a very narrow ruling on the constitutionality of the health reform law’s “individual responsibility” provision and upheld the rest of the law.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/01/ ... e-care-act
Posted by Stephanie Cutter on January 31, 2011 at 4:49 PM EST
Today, a judge in Florida issued a decision in a case filed by 25 Republican Attorneys General and Governors striking down the Affordable Care Act. This ruling is well out of the mainstream of judicial opinion. Twelve federal judges have already dismissed challenges to the constitutionality of the health reform law, and two judges – in the Eastern District of Michigan and Western District of Virginia – have upheld the law. In one other case, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a very narrow ruling on the constitutionality of the health reform law’s “individual responsibility” provision and upheld the rest of the law.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/01/ ... e-care-act