Another court case concerning Obamacare. The origination of the “Affordable Care Act” was in the Senate. John Roberts led the majority of the Supreme Court ruling this clearly illegal act was Constitutional as a tax. All revenue measures must originate in the House of Representatives. The law is clear. So is the fact that the rule of law is no longer valid in what was once the great experiment of The People.
David DeGerolamo
WILL THIS COURT CASE SHATTER OBAMACARE?
The Obama administration may be alarmed over the dismal number of people signing up for Obamacare, the rising health-care costs for Americans, the legal challenges to the religious discrimination embedded in the law and other problems.
But all of that would be of no consequence if a lawsuit in federal court in Washington succeeds. It alleges senators overstepped their authority in creating the Affordable Care Act and the law, therefore, is null and void.
The case argues that since the U.S. Constitution requires that revenue-raising measures originate in the U.S. House and Obamacare was created in the Senate, the law is unconstitutional. The case is headed toward the Supreme Court.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who has been leading the Obamacare charge since its inception, took a House-passed bill, deleted its contents and then substituted the Senate’s 2,000-page bill.
Now dozens of members of the U.S. House of Representatives are signing onto the battle, claiming the Senate didn’t have the authority to pass the bill.
They argue taxes only can originate with the House, the representatives closest to the American people.
That requirement is so important, according to the members of Congress, that the Constitution never would have been adopted without it.
According to a brief dozens of House members have filed in the case, the principle “behind the Origination Clause – sometimes phrased as ‘No Taxation Without Representation’ – was the moral justification for our War of Independence.”
