Liberty University opens door to challenge ObamaCare

Tucked inside the Supreme Court's lengthy list of orders on Monday was an indication that the fight over President Obama's health care law soon could be back before the high court.

Since the court's June decision upholding the law's individual mandate to buy insurance, one of the first Obamacare plaintiffs has been fighting for a new hearing on challenges to other portions of the law.

Liberty University, a Christian college in Virginia, has been fighting the employer mandate since the law was enacted, while challenging the law on other constitutional grounds. The school got as far as the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to hear the merits of the case. That federal court decided that the original Liberty University lawsuit was barred because of the Anti-Injunction Act, which would block any challenge to a "tax" before a taxpayer actually pays it, in this case referring to the penalties associated with failing to obtain health insurance.

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the Anti-Injunction Act did not serve as a barrier to lawsuits challenging the health care law. On that basis, Liberty University immediately petitioned the court to allow it to renew its original case.

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http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QHRUML5XFH7AMSWH63TQH7F7E4 MalikTous

Ha ha, finally Falwell's freak show clown college does something useful in the effort to tear down and repeal the health scare deform 'law'! I hope they help destroy PPACA and get it (and Romneycare) permanently repealed!
- drmdellis
  
  I know this is a comment section and that you have a right to sound off your hatred, but I just feel that you should know that attacking a proven man of God can bring judgement on you and your family. Not by any person but by the laws and oracles of God. God said not to touch His anointed and you are boarder lining just that. I do not hate you nor wish you any harm. I just feel someone should tell you the truth. I will pray for you, not against you.
  - http://www.monster-island.net/ kushibo
    
    Jerry Falwell was a bigot who abused and distorted the Bible in order to justify his bigotry. People like Jerry Falwell were not anointed by God; rather, it was his very vocal bigotry that turned so many people away from God.
    
    http://surftofind.com/falwell
    - Evermyrtle
      
      That old dying dog had better run, get out of the way, the vultures are circling.
  - http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QHRUML5XFH7AMSWH63TQH7F7E4 MalikTous
    
    If any popular roadshow preacher is 'annointed' it would be Graham and son, not Falwell's hypocrite show. Nevertheless, if it succeeds in destroying PPACA and other attempts to destroy our medical system by government nationalisation scam, I'll respect that aspect.
- Ken
  
  "Freak show clown college"….? You are a bigger idiot than Kushibo…if possible.
  - http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QHRUML5XFH7AMSWH63TQH7F7E4 MalikTous
    
    Said by a reject from Dingburg…
RJ

ALL the DEMOCRAT VOTERS need to ask them self's if they want their STATE'S to be in the sad state that CALIFORNIA and the other LIBERAL STATE'S are in. The GOOD PEOPLE of CALIFORNIA are leaving the State by the thousands some living there their whole life there are now leaving.
- http://www.monster-island.net/ kushibo
  
  As far as healthcare is concerned, California is in the sad state it's in not because there is universal healthcare, but because there isn't.
  - Aristophanes
    
    kushibo – you don't think it might have something to do with all the illegal aliens that have inundated California?
http://www.monster-island.net/ kushibo

This kind of behavior underscores the hypocrisy of the Republican Party today. Obamacare was a Heritage Foundation plan, and the only reason why people going after the mandates, which was a Republican proposal, is that Obama is the one that put it in place.
- Ken
  
  Kushibo….such an idiot you are to make such a false statement. The Obamacare bill passed the senate without even one Republican vote. How can you say it was a Republican plan?? How could you have missed that little fact??
  - Steve03
    
    It was Heritagecare and Romneycare before it was Obamacare. When President Romney proposes an essentially identical plan as a replacement for Obamacare, every Republican will vote for it. And you will applaud loudly.
    - http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QHRUML5XFH7AMSWH63TQH7F7E4 MalikTous
      
      It's why I want the government kicked out of medicine, perhaps excepting necessary military battlefield medicine and (preferably corporate) subsidy and sponsorship of elder care, handicapped care, ER care, and K-12 child care boosts. Capitalist medicine works great when the courts don't allow a bunch of fraudulent and frivolous malpractise suits to run up the costs. I despise the failure of Taxachusetts and their joke called Romneycare as well as Borkup Obummer's Patient Perversion and Unaffordable Care Act. Scrap them both. It's getting more and more attractive to vote Libertarian…
  - http://www.monster-island.net/ kushibo
    
    The Heritage Foundation plan was the cornerstone of Romney care and by extension Obamacare. Obama and his people chose this plan because it was a Republican plan, which had been used as a counter to Hillary care in the 1990s, and they thought the Republicans would thus get behind it. This is true of the mandate in particular.
    
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577211161144786448.html
  - Evermyrtle
    
    Biased!!!!
- Evermyrtle
  
  That is good enough reason for me, since I can not think of one thing he has done that is good for America, this one is doubtful, also. I do not represent the GOP and stay as far away from "the other party" as possible.
drmdellis

Liberty University has been a landmark for the American heritage since the 70s. It is great seeing them stand in the gap for America once again. If you hate God then you will not like L.U. as it is full of Jesus Christ. It has high academic standards and is producing some of the finest students in America. It does not matter where Obamacare came from, it is unconstitutional, immoral, unsustainable, and the apex of socialism. It will be defeated. Now hate on that for a while and let some of these other commentors rest.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004047180339 John Adams

I'm glad that religious and quasi-Christian organizations are fighting this law. The entire thing needs to be overturned. Any federal healthcare legislation is entirely unconstitutional.
While I used to be a supporter of Jerry Falwell in the long-ago ages, he, his successors, and his college/university have fallen from the True Faith.
fliteking

Liberty University is informed and willing to act, putting them MILES ahead of the average American.

I Pray for their success.
- Evermyrtle
  
  Correct but still a problem here, people are not interested in the truth, they rather hide behind a lie. Something like, if you can hide it, ti will go away. Somebody had better do something, if we don't we or we are stuck with Obamascare.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O24NYT5HOQNDEJ3TUT5QOTLOF4 TM
  
  We sane people did not want this crock of obama health care crap before it was shoved down our unwilling throats. I say if this obama care is not good enough for the a holes who wrote and passed it well it's no good for us either.