Federal Appeals Court to Ken Cuccinelli: Fuck off, clown - and take that teabagger lower court ...

[11 Bravo]

judge with you. I wonder how he will try to spin this. A conservative Virginia appeals court basically said that he and his lawsuit against the Affordable Health Care Act are full of shit, and returned the case to the lower court with instructions to dismiss.
Poor Ken. Poor, poor, Ken.

[Cool Logic]

1. No need for spin...it was dismissed on a technicality.

The appellate court ruled that the since the state is not an individual, it cannot challenge the individual mandate.

Eventually, this un-Constitutional legislation will be tossed by the SC.

[mfcorey1]

4. You wish. The only people who will suffer are uninsured. Oh, I forgot that some don't give a

damn as long as they have their own.

[Cool Logic]

6. Well, I must have missed it...

For I did not read where the court ruled on the individual mandate.

As an aside: I care...I care very much about the Constitution. The United States has a federal structure, with power divided between the states and the fedgov. The fedgov can only legislate in areas specifically delegated to it in Article 1 of the Constitution. On the other hand, State govs can act in any sphere not prohibited to them, as defined by the 10th Amendment.

[myrna minx]

2. He is a clown. I wonder how much that foolish suit cost VIrginia?

Wonderful subject line. :hi:

[CBHagman]

3. Frankly, it's one battle down, more to go.

Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas's wife (Yes, THAT Clarence Thomas) is another health care reform foe. Take a gander at these:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/29/110829fa_fact_toobin

In January, he was compelled to amend several years of the financial-disclosure forms that Supreme Court Justices must file each year. The document requires the Justices to disclose the source of all income earned by their spouses, and Thomas had failed to note that his wife, Virginia, who is known as Ginni, worked as a representative for a Michigan college and at the Heritage Foundation. The following month, seventy-four members of Congress called on Thomas to recuse himself from any legal challenges to President Obama’s health-care reform, because his wife has been an outspoken opponent of the law. At around the same time, Court observers noted the fifth anniversary of the last time that Thomas had asked a question during an oral argument. The confluence of these events produced the kind of public criticism, and even mockery, that Thomas had largely managed to avoid since his tumultuous arrival on the Court, twenty years ago this fall.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/us/politics/09thomas.html

Mrs. Thomas’s political work has drawn criticism before from Democrats. In the weeks before a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court, including her husband, decided the 2000 election for George W. Bush over Al Gore, Mrs. Thomas was compiling résumés for potential appointees to a Bush administration from her job at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative, Republican-leaning research group.

Mrs. Thomas’s supporters said she plays an important role as a bridge between grass-roots Tea Party activists and establishment Republicans in Washington. Ryan Hecker, a lawyer in Houston and a prominent Tea Party activist, said he had heard that Liberty Central was “doing a big get-out-the-vote effort” in some Congressional races. Despite the suspicion of many in the Tea Party that Republicans in Washington are trying to co-opt the movement, Mr. Hecker said the “charismatic and very genuine” Mrs. Thomas is not seen that way among activists.

[gmee2]

5. Appeals court

it was a panel from the 4th circuit court and it was made up of 3 Dems, two of them Obama appointees.Hardly a conservative court. Nice spin but you need to get your facts straight.