Landmark Legal Foundation to File Suit to Stop President’s Health Plan if ‘Slaughter Rule’ is Used
(LEESBURG, VA, MARCH 17, 2010 Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.
“Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when they didn’t. The Speaker of the House and her lieutenants are temporary custodians of congressional authority. They are not empowered to do permanent violence to our Constitution.”
A draft of the complaint Landmark will file is available at:
Landmark's Draft "Slaughter Rule" Complaint
Founded in 1976, Landmark Legal Foundation is a nonprofit, public interest law firm with offices in Kansas City, Missouri and Leesburg, Virginia. (END)
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4 comments:
This has already been tested in court...the Democrats sued when the Republicans used it. It held up in court just fine.
Frivolous!
Who needs the unconstitutionality of the 'Saughter Rule' to go to court? If it's passed states are lining up to contest the 10th Amendment violations, Then there's the unconstitutionality of the individual mandate. Dems should just walk away...
and what about the Democrats that are voting against the health care plan? what about the rest of you heartless people that does not care about the people that have no insurance not because they are living on the system or on medicaid but because they just cannot pay such high insurance premiums and keep a home for their family? Wake up before your ivory palace is also gone.
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