Monday, January 31, 2011

2nd Judge to Dismantle Obamacare?

US judge may escalate battle over health care reform.

Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Florida has suggested strongly that he too will rule the individual mandate oversteps constitutional limits on federal authority. He may also move to invalidate the entire law, by granting the plaintiff states' request for an injunction to halt its implementation.

"The power that the individual mandate seeks to harness is simply without prior precedent," Vinson wrote in an earlier opinion in October.