Texas Greg Abbott 13 Other State Attorney Generals Support Legal Challenge to Federal Health Care Law

by: admin
2011-05-27
Source: texasinsider
01/07/2020

14-state coalition supports Seven-Sky v. Holder plaintiffs argues that individual mandate is unconstitutional Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas The federal government embraces a sweeping view of the Commerce Clause … that would imperil individual liberty render Congresss other enumerated powers superfluous and allow Congress to usurp the general police power reserved to the States" said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and officials from 13 other states in a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that challenges the constitutionality of the federal health care law. The states amicus brief in Seven-Sky v. Holder explains that the laws individual mandate which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance as a condition of lawful residence in the United States violates the Constitution. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an extraordinary law that rests on unprecedented assertions of federal authority pushing even the most expansive conception of the federal governments constitutional powers past the breaking point" the brief states.

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States brief filed with The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

The states amicus brief supports a legal challenge filed by Susan Seven-Sky and four other plaintiffs. In March 2010 the states filed their own legal challenge to the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Three months later in June Seven-Sky v. Holder was filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Although the states challenge prompted a federal judge in Florida to declare the federal health care law unconstitutional the district court ruled against the Seven-Sky plaintiffs. As a result they appealed their case to the federal court of appeals and the states brief