LifeNews.com - Appeals Court Urged to Uphold Florida Anti-Obamacare Decision

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com

The American Center for Law and Justice, a pro-life legal group that is deeply involved in challenging the pro-abortion Obamacare health care law, today filed an amicus brief representing 74 members of Congress in one of the major cases.

The brief urges a federal appeals court to uphold a lower court ruling that declared ObamaCare unconstitutional in the multi-state lawsuit headed by Florida.

This is a case where the federal district court got it right, said Jay Sekulow, the ACLJs chief counsel. The fact is that the individual mandate forcing Americans to purchase health care insurance violates the Commerce Clause, giving Congress power to act beyond its constitutional authority.

He told LifeNews: Further, the individual mandate provision is tied directly to the health care law meaning if the mandate is unconstitutional, the entire law must be thrown out.  Were confident that the appeals court will reach the same conclusion  one more legal step on the road to the Supreme Court, where were hopeful the high court will put an end to this government-run, pro-abortion health care law once and for all.

The ACLJ today filed its amicus brief in support of the Florida lawsuit challenging the Obama care law, which contains loopholes allowing abortion funding and rationing concerns, on behalf of the members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and more than 70,000 Americans who signed on to ACLJs Constitutional Committee to Challenge the President & Congress on Health Care, which opposes the individual mandate. . . .

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