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But secondly texas is a florida. the 230 state case in florida which by the way is a footnote geraldo. expect to see the number of states involved in the lawsuit to expands on a go forward basis touch that by the time its all over with you should have more than half of the states in this country fueling the government. >> they are dominated by republican state legislators just as state houses just isnt assigned. >> going back to your point that is it in the case texas is a part of florida, we ha...

Views and the constitution, a chance to steal the spotlight and just as paul ryan was the health care congress map, some senate republican will be the "go to" person during the hearings of the constitution. whoever it is, he or she should use the hearings to highlight current constitutional challenges to the new health care law. obamas nominee must be asked the following question: is there any meaningful limit on congress power under the commerce laws? congress used the commerce law to justify t...

Views and the constitution, a chance to steal the spotlight and just as paul ryan was the health care congress map, some senate republican will be the "go to" person during the hearings of the constitution. whoever it is, he or she should use the hearings to highlight current constitutional challenges to the new health care law. obamas nominee must be asked the following question: is there any meaningful limit on congress power under the commerce laws? congress used the commerce law to justify t...

Those who oppose is argue the government cannot force to you buy healthcare and its a constitutional right being waived. the democrats say not so, commerce laws allow just this sort of thing. so the battle ensues. what do you make of that? >> first of all, its a brand-new precedent-setting erosion of the limitation on federal power by forcing to you buy federally approved health insurance. first of all, the commerce clause has been limited, even in recent times, when theres no nexus or connectio...

Issues. what specifically are you planning on doing? >> we are in litigation. we have our first scheduling conference set for the 14th of april that has two things. number one, individual mandate absolutely unconstitutional. number two medicaid expansion, violate of 10th amendment, 9th amendment. in utah we are unique. we already our legislature decided they needed to do something on the state level, local level with regard to this issue. when created an exchange only massachusetts and utah have...

Issues. what specifically are you planning on doing? >> we are in litigation. we have our first scheduling conference set for the 14th of april that has two things. number one, individual mandate absolutely unconstitutional. number two medicaid expansion, violate of 10th amendment, 9th amendment. in utah we are unique. we already our legislature decided they needed to do something on the state level, local level with regard to this issue. when created an exchange only massachusetts and utah have...

>> i cant let you go there. it specifically said it is not constitutional under the commerce laws it is constitutional under the tax. the question will raising taxes for the middle class lets look at the record. congressional budget office estimates in 2016, 4 million americans will pay the mandate penalty for tax and 75 percent of those people will make less than 120,000 a year. between 2012 and 2021 those folks will pay 27 billion in additional taxes. let me make this point i promisepromise i ...

Views and the constitution, a chance to steal the spotlight and just as paul ryan was the health care congress map, some senate republican will be the "go to" person during the hearings of the constitution. whoever it is, he or she should use the hearings to highlight current constitutional challenges to the new health care law. obamas nominee must be asked the following question: is there any meaningful limit on congress power under the commerce laws? congress used the commerce law to justify t...