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Obama’s War on Libya versus the Constitution

From Intellectual Conservative: By using the US Military to begin hostilities with a foreign nation without a Congressional declaration of war, Barack Obama has committed a serious violation of the Constitution. While he certainly is not the first to do so in regards to war powers, it’s high time that he becomes the last. With [...]

Obama Administration Continues Spending Taxpayer Money Authorized by a Law Declared Unconstitutional

From CNSNews.com: A federal judge in Florida recently ruled that the entire health care law is unconstitutional – a ruling Judge Roger Vinson described as “the functional equivalent of an injunction.” But that hasn’t stopped the Obama administration from spending hundreds of millions of dollars authorized by the disputed law. On Wednesday, Health and Human [...]

The Obamacare Assault on the Rule of Law

Why is the Obama administration exempting millions from Obamacare, but also attacking a federal court ruling that called the law unconstitutional? From The Heritage Foundation: Mere hours after senior federal Judge Roger Vinson, a United States Naval Academy graduate, became the second federal judge to find Obamacare’s Section 1501 (the individual mandate) unconstitutional, an anonymous [...]

Will President Obama Abide by Court’s Decision and Suspend Obamacare?

From The Heritage Foundation: This week, Judge Roger Vinson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida becamethe second federal judge to strike down Obamacare’s individual mandate. In doing so, Vinson struck down the entire law concluding “the individual mandate and the remaining provisions are all inextricably bound together in purpose [...]

Ruling Healthcare Law Unconstitutional Is New Sputnik Moment

From US News: The Florida court’s ruling against Obamacare could be America’s new “Sputnik Moment.” First a federal judge in Virginia courts ruled in December that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. But when a Florida judge ruled that the entire healthcare law was unconstitutional, the confirmation came for millions of Americans and thousands of small businesses [...]

Another Federal Judge Rules Against Obamacare – UPDATE: Tosses Out Entire Law

From Townhall.com: Reports are surfacing that federal judge Roger Vinson has issued a ruling that declares at least one element of Obamacare to be unconstitutional.  The full ruling is expected to be released within the hour.  This suit challenging the new law was brought by 26 states: U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling will be the biggest judicial [...]

Federal Judge: Obamacare is Void

From The Heritage Foundation: Today’s decision by Judge Vinson is another stinging defeat for the administration in its defense of Obamacare. Defenders of the health care bill had tried to paint any legal challenge as “frivolous.”  When then-Speaker Pelosi was asked by a reporter “where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an [...]

List of 27 States Suing Over Obamacare

From The Heritage Foundation: Last March, Virginia and Florida (joined by 12 other states) filed suit against Obamacare, challenging its constitutionality. Since that time, many other states have joined in, recognizing the threat posed by the legislation to both the Constitution and their own state budgets. As we reported on Friday, more than half of [...]

More Than Half of All States Now Suing to Stop Obamacare

From The Heritage Foundation: This Wednesday Maine Attorney General William Schneider announced that the Pine Tree State would become the 23rd state participating in Florida’s multi-state suit against Obamacare. With Oklahoma and Virginia each pursuing their own seperate suits, thatbrought the number of states fighting Obamacare’s budget busting Medicaid expansion to 25. It didn’t take [...]

The Coming Constitutional Debate

From The Heritage Foundation: The Constitution has returned to Congress. It began with a ceremonial reading of the document on the House floor for the first time in US history. While the event had some problems, the act of reading the document that provides the authority for Congress in the first place sets the tone and [...]

Obama Recess Appointment Gives James Cole the No. 2 Post at Justice Department

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday to make six recess appointments, including a deputy attorney general whose links to the insurance giant American International Group had stalled his confirmation. Obama first nominated James Cole to the No. 2 Justice Department post in May. But Republican lawmakers blocked his confirmation in part because [...]

Obama Bypasses Senate With More Recess Appointments, Including First Ambassador to Syria in 5 Years

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama has bypassed the Senate and directly appointed four new U.S. ambassadors whose nominations had been stalled or blocked by lawmakers for months. The White House announced Wednesday that Obama would use his power to make recess appointments to fill envoy posts to Azerbaijan, Syria and NATO allies Turkey and the [...]

NY Times Shocked To Learn There Could Be Years Of Wrangling Over ObamaCare

From Right Wing News: Seriously, around eight months ago, who would have thought there would be legal challenges to legislation that the majority of Americans hated overall, and found constitutional issues in? The Times is shocked, shocked, I tell you! By contradicting two prior opinions, Monday’s court ruling in Virginia against the Obama health care law [...]

Obama’s Health-Care Law Ruled Unconstitutional Over Insurance Requirement

From Bloomberg.com: The Obama administration’s health- care overhaul unconstitutionally requires Americans to maintain a minimum level of health insurance, a federal judge ruled, striking down the linchpin of the plan. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, said yesterday that the mandate on individuals in President Barack Obama’s health-care legislation goes beyond Congress’s powers to regulate [...]

Judge to Obamacare architects: Ahem. Meet the Constitution, power-grabbers.

From Michelle Malkin: The story of the day: Virginia judge strikes down a key piece of the Dems’ government health care takeover — the individual mandate. Hey, remember when conservatives objected to the Obamacare federal individual mandate on constitutional grounds and the liberal establishmentlaughed. Flashback October 2009 – Pelosi scoffs at constitutional concerns. Listen: Flashback October [...]

Guess who ordered nude body scanners

John Tyner and New TSA Security Check: Is It Sexual Molestation?From World Net Daily: Editor’s Note: Some of the links in this report lead to graphic images that have been taken from current airport security scanning procedures. Use caution in viewing the links. A constitutional attorney preparing to legally challenge the Transportation Security Administration’s enhanced screening [...]

Obama Administration More Sympathic to Terror Suspects’ Rights than to Americans’ Rights

From Big Peace: The outrage caused by the TSA over the past few weeks continues to fuel questions of the Obama administration’s priorities and intentions when it comes to protecting and respecting the rights of American citizens as opposed to those of suspected/captured terrorists enemy combatants. Many stories and videos of groping, aggressive searches of adults and children, TSA threats, and humiliation are [...]

Congressional Report Casts Doubt on Constitutionality of Obamacare’s Individual Mandate

From CNSNews.com: A report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) casts doubt on the two main arguments used by the Obama administration to defend the individual insurance mandate that is the central component of the controversial health “reform” law. Published on October 15, the CRS report examines the arguments both for and against the constitutionality [...]

Obamacare could actually kill Constitution

From World Net Daily: Virginia’s attorney general, who recently won a preliminary round over the Obama administration in his state’s fight over Obamacare, warns if the federal government can order citizens to purchase health insurance, “they can order you to do anything.” If the insurance mandate is upheld, according to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, it [...]

Congress and President Ignoring Constitution

From Human Events: The catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is a horrific example of what happens when Congress and the President don’t do the jobs that the Constitution requires them to do. The U.S. Constitution says that Congress is to “provide for the common defense and general welfare of the united States of America.” [...]