Lawsuits are a Distraction

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Jon Roland of Constitution.org had this to say about the lawsuits that AGs are filing on the health care bill

There are a few minor things that might be won through litigation, if it were properly pleaded, but the suit filed is incompetent, little more than political posturing. The courts are not going to oppose the political branches on anything important. They are too weak for that. In the meantime the political branches are happy for people to blame the courts when it is they that are the main problem.

I agree. What do you think?

Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter - @michaelboldin, on LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

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ken Ivory
ken Ivory

It seem to me a lot like the parents asking their child to decide what the parents' curfew and bedtime should be. However, probably a necessary step to reveal its futility at some point. If this bill were to get struck down by the courts in response to the suits, we will likely see court packing maneuvers that would have made FDR blush. Then will come the true federalism showdown. Are the states prepared to "erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority" (Hamilton) even when it takes serious personal and collective sacrifice to restore the balance of power in our constitutional federalist system? I am encouraged and pray that it will be so.

Greg
Greg

Sadly, I agree 100%. As far as it concerns the federal government (the three branches), the "reform" is here to stay. The only hope is nullification, on a state or personal level.

Steve Palmer
Steve Palmer

Sufficient? Probably not. Necessary? Probably. I don't agree that the law suits are a distraction. I think they are a necessary component of a more comprehensive resistance strategy.

MichaelBoldin
MichaelBoldin

Steve - great point, thanks for bringing this up! I seem to have fallen into my own trap, per se.....and have failed to recognize that as long as this is part of a broader strategy, it fits right in with our motto here at TAC - small things grow great by concord....

My big concern, of course, is that people in many areas are fully relying on these lawsuits as their savior. I expect them to fail....but if they get the constitutional discussion out into the public sphere in a big way, it can only be a good thing!

Grace
Grace

The federal government seems to think THEY are above the law and the rest of us legal American citizen peons must do whatever they deem legal.

I also wonder what Constitutional scholars have to say about obama’s HC army of 6,000 obama appointed people that are to be given full authority over the American people? This legislative threat to our freedom and liberty was recently discovered to be tucked into the HC mandate. Yes, in addition to at least 16,000 IRS agents threatening us, we will be subjected to a civilian army.

This sounds like Marxist China, not America.

Grace
Grace

I think the States are going to hitch up with other states, the combined states will form a unit, and as a unit, they will end up asserting their independence from the Union as the federal government has become drunk with power. The political elites in Washington, obviously have an un-American agenda and they mean to fufill it.

It is ironic that the political elites, lied, cheated, stole, threatened, bribed and bought votes to pass the HC mandate and then the corrupt elites demand that the American people follow the letter of the unconstitutional law and abide by this dictate.