Fourth Circuit Vacates Lower Court Ruling Adverse to ObamaCare

September 8th, 2011

By Dan Miller On January 31, 2011, Judge Henry Hudson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held ObamaCare an unconstitutional enactment under the Commerce Clause. On September 8th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the plaintiff there, the Commonwealth of Virginia, lacked standing to seek judicial resolution of […]


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ObamaCare Oral Arguments

May 10th, 2011

By Dan Miller The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard two oral arguments on ObamaCare today. Recordings of both are available here.  Each is about forty-five minutes in length. The case involving Liberty University was heard first, that involving the Commonwealth of Virginia was heard next. The Commonwealth argument dealt almost exclusively with the standing […]


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Legal Challenge to ObamaCare Passes First Hurdle

August 4th, 2010

By Dan Miller Might the republic prevail? In Virginia, a federal government motion to dismiss the state’s suit against ObamaCare is denied. *  *  * Judge Hudson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied a motion by the federal government to dismiss a suit filed by Virginia challenging the […]


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Kinky and Political Theater

November 4th, 2009

By Tom Carter The most delicious political news is that Kinky Friedman is running for governor of Texas again!  He’ll be running in the Democratic primary, and he’s convinced that he can beat either incumbent Governor Rick Perry or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, depending on which of them wins the Republican primary, which he calls […]


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