A federal judge in Virginia has ruled, in a case brought by the state's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, that the individual mandate in the health care reform law is unconstitutional. Judges in two other lawsuits filed in federal court in Lynchburg, Virginia, and in Michigan, have ruled the provision constitutional; the issue will likely make its way to the Supreme Court.
Last April, when I covered the Freedom Federation "Awakening" conference at Liberty University in Lynchburg, the claimed unconstitutionality of the provision was a major theme. Cuccinelli addressed the group about his lawsuit, and his views of the Commerce Clause, the constitutional provision used to challenge the mandate.
Now the American Center for Law and Justice, the legal group headed by Supreme Court litigator Jay Sekulow, is drumming up support for its amicus brief in the Michigan case, which is headed to the Court of Appeals, via an online petition for its "Committee to Declare Pro-Abortion ObamaCare Unconstitutional."
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