Posts Tagged ‘obamacare’
Stop the ObamaCare Abortion Drug Mandate!
U.S. CONGRESS, EAGLE FORUM The dirty details of ObamaCare are still being worked out by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and they are being announced little by little, hoping the American public will not notice. Last month, Secretary Sebelius finalized part of ObamaCare’s “Preventive Services” rule, which will [...]
Obama and Ginsburg on America’s “Rather Old Constitution”
PAUL G. KENGOR, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES I’ve gotten some very interesting emails regarding President Obama’s mandate commanding Roman Catholics (and many evangelical Protestants) to violate their consciences by providing mandatory contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing pharmaceuticals. The emailers noted that Obama’s [...]
Catholic Group to Sue Obama Administration over Obamcare
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PRIESTS FOR LIFE Staten Island, NY - Priests for Life, a New York based international pro-life organization of Catholic clergy and laity, today announced that it will be filing a lawsuit against the Obama Administration in an effort to seek injunctive relief from impending regulations that would require the organization to [...]
The Individual Mandate: There’s More To It Than Just Health Care
EDWARD WHITE, ACLJ At the end of March, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument on the constitutionality of the health care law, otherwise known as ObamaCare. The main legal challenge is to the individual mandate, the provision requiring millions of Americans to buy and indefinitely maintain health insurance or face annual penalties, [...]
ACLJ to SCOTUS: Reject ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate
JAY SEKULOW, ACLJ The argument we are making to the Supreme Court is clear and concise: ObamaCare's individual mandate, which forces Americans to purchase health insurance under penalty of law, violates the Constitution and usurps the rights given to states. Today, we filed a very significant amicus brief, posted here, on behalf of 119 [...]
Obama’s “Healthcare” Mandate: What Would Reagan Say?
PAUL G. KENGOR, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES February 6 was the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. It comes at an appropriate time. February is also the month of Presidents Day and the birthday of Lincoln, the other Republican standard-bearer. Every Republican presidential candidate tries to claim the mantle of Reagan: “I believe as [...]
Help Restore Religious Freedom in America
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign The contraception mandate recently dictated by the Obama administration has met with a firestorm of opposition. It requires all employers, regardless of the tenets of their faith to purchase health insurance plans that cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortifacients. Aside from the attempts by [...]
Obamacare Awakens a Sleeping Giant
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with a sole piece of legislation as its principal target. But when that law eviscerates the very foundation of religious liberty in America as protected [...]
No “Constitutional Rights Issues” in Violating Religious Liberties?
White House doesn't get it Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, was asked about the recent announcement from HHS that religious institutions, such as religious schools and hospitals, would have to include abortifacient drugs, sterilization, and contraception in their [...]
Bishop: Obama Administration Is Telling Catholics ‘To Hell With You’
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM Roman Catholic Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh says the Obama administration is telling American Catholics: “To Hell with you.” “The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, ‘To Hell with you!’” the bishop said in a column posted on his diocesan website. “There [...]
39 Years, 54 Million Babies – The March Against Roe v. Wade
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice 39 years ago the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of the worst decisions our nation has ever seen – Roe v. Wade. Since this horrific decision that called the destruction of human life a “right,” 54 million babies have been aborted. That figure is a tragic and solemn [...]
ObamaCare: A Costly, Job-Robbing Boondoggle
iberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice "With government spending and regulations out of control, small businesses don’t know what’s going to hit them next." That from U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue. The fact is small businesses are going to get hit again - this time they will be hit very hard by [...]
New Poll Shows Strong Dissatisfaction with Washington
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, today released the results of a new nationwide survey of registered voters conducted by telephone by Harris Interactive concerning the American people’s attitudes on a variety of subjects, including [...]
How ObamaCare uses Taxpayer Money to Pay for Abortions
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice From the very beginning we have been telling you that ObamaCare not only greatly expands access to but provides taxpayer funding for abortion. Here are the facts. Expanded access to abortion through ObamaCare ObamaCare requires every American to purchase health insurance, it requires [...]
Defeat ObamaCare: Take Nothing for Granted
ObamaCare, American Center for Law and Justice The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the ObamaCare case at the end of March. With arguments still two months away, speculation is already growing on what the court will do. There's an interesting story in The Hill that suggests that backers of ObamaCare "have lost the high level of [...]
ACLJ: Take a Stand With Us Against Obamacare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Can Congress require you to purchase health insurance? Is it constitutional for Congress to penalize you if you don't? Those questions are at the core of legal challenges of ObamaCare, which the Supreme Court will consider in March. Our position is clear: the individual mandate is wrong. [...]
ACLJ Urges Supreme Court to Consider Religious Challenge
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to accept its case in a challenge to ObamaCare, saying the ACLJ lawsuit is separate and distinct from other challenges pending before the Court because it includes a claim that the individual mandate, which [...]
1,231 Reasons Why ObamaCare is Unworkable
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The Obama Administration has been granting waivers exempting certain businesses and organizations from key components of ObamaCare for over a year. When we first alerted you, the Obama Administration had granted 30 waivers to Obama’s signature legislation, including to some of its [...]
The Future of ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U. S. Supreme Court scheduled an extraordinary five and a half hours for oral argument in the legal challenge to ObamaCare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The last time the U.S. Supreme Court granted so much time for oral argument was 35 years ago, and that was for four consolidated [...]
How Not to Go Crazy in 2012
By Alan Caruba Election years tend to create a level of frenzy concerning the selection of the nominees and the outcome. The media feed this in order to keep readers reading and viewers viewing. The history of American elections has always been one of vituperation between the parties, so there is nothing new about this. Indeed, since so much [...]
2011 Victories and the Challenges Ahead
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice If you have been reading the ACLJ’s 2011 Victories series, you know that this has been an incredible year for the ACLJ. Through the unwavering support of our ACLJ members, we have protected “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, “In God We Trust” as the National Motto, the [...]
New Obamacare Tax To Help Govt. Ration Healthcare
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES In just a few days a new Obamacare tax—that will double the following year—will kick in to fund “comparative effectiveness research” that’s supposed to help the government save money by finding ways to ration healthcare. This is crazy; a semi-secret tax so the feds have cash to pay bureaucrats [...]
The Grand Panjandrum of Pundits
By Alan Caruba It’s a little known event, perhaps because its participants want it that way, but as the new year is poised to begin, the Grand Panjandrum of Pundits gathered at an undisclosed location for their annual review of all the predictions they made regarding things that did not occur, all the events that did occur—taking them by [...]
ACLJ Prepares to File Brief Challenging ObamaCare at SCOTUS
LIBERTY ALERTS, ACLJ The New Year will begin with the focus directly on the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare. As I write this, we're putting the finishing touches on our amicus brief to be filed within days at the Supreme Court - the first of three briefs we will file challenging ObamaCare. This first brief, to be filed on January [...]
2011: A Big Year for Social Conservatives
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice As social conservatives look back on 2011, it was a year filled with a number of successes spurred by increased challenges: from political correctness run amuck to outright assaults by angry atheists on our national heritage. The year started off on the right foot. For the first time, [...]
The 2012 Check List for America’s Survival
By Alan Caruba Many people make resolutions to start the year, but I think a list of things that must be done to protect and preserve the Republic should be tallied. 1. President Obama must be defeated in 2012 and the obstructionist Democratic Party must lose power in the Senate to ensure both houses of Congress will be Republican and in a [...]
Supreme Court Sets Argument Date on ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The Supreme Court has just announced that it will hear oral arguments on ObamaCare over a three-day period from March 26-28, 2012. These arguments to determine the constitutionality of this pro-abortion law are scheduled to occur just days after the two-year anniversary of its [...]
Justice Kagan’s Recusal Raises Questions
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice When the Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will consider the Arizona immigration case to determine whether this measure is constitutional, something else happened. Justice Elena Kagan, who served as Solicitor General for President Obama before being nominated and confirmed to the [...]
Obamacare Showers Millions on School Health Clinics
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Under Obamacare, more than $14 million in taxpayer money is going to health clinics at 45 schools, many of them in poor parts of the country. "Today's infusion of new money will enable them to expand their capacity and modernize their facilities," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [...]
Judicial Watch Announces a Special Presentation
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced it will host a panel discussion: "Justice Kagan, Obamacare and Recusal." Panelists include Edward Whelan, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center; Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel and Policy [...]
SCOTUS Urged to Consider ACLJ’s ObamaCare Case
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice As I told you earlier this month, we were determining which course of action we would take in appealing our decision by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. upholding the constitutionality of a key part of ObamaCare. We have decided to appeal the decision by the three-judge panel of [...]
Will the President Protect Religious Rights?
Ericka Anderson, Heritage Foundation Sometimes the White House gets the easy questions wrong. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked about a controversial mandate stemming from Obamacare that would require religious employers to provide insurance coverage for birth control despite religious objections. The regulation in [...]
In Michigan, Obamacare is Already a Job-Killer
Jay Lucas and Alyene Senger, Heritage Foundation While the White House continues its rhetoric on job creation, the job-killing effects of Obamacare are already taking effect. One provision of the law, its tax on medical device manufacturers, is already having a detrimental impact on a Michigan-based manufacturer. Stryker Corporation has [...]
America’s Biggest Turkey: Barack Obama
By Alan Caruba The 2012 national elections will be held on November 6 and I naturally want to get out ahead of all the other pundits and their predictions about its outcome. I cannot tell you who the Republican winner will be, but I can tell you that Barack Hussein Obama will be known as a former President. He has most certainly turned out [...]
Posturing Persists in Run-Up to ObamaCare Arguments
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice As we prepare our legal arguments to file with the Supreme Court in an amicus brief detailing why ObamaCare should be declared unconstitutional, it's interesting to note posturing is already underway - not in the courtroom - but in the court of public opinion and in the halls of [...]
ObamaCare: The Fight Continues
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Two years ago, when ObamaCare was ramrodded through Congress at the eleventh hour, the American people were squarely against this pro-abortion law that forces Americans to buy a particular good or service as the price of citizenship. Today, only a meager 34% still support this law. Since [...]
SCOTUS Asked to OK Television Cameras for ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice With the Supreme Court poised to hear oral arguments (5+ hours) in March, it comes as no suprise that there are renewed calls to put cameras in the courtroom - to televise the arguments concerning the constitutionality of ObamaCare. The request comes from C-SPAN in a letter to Chief Justice [...]
No Abortion Funding in ObamaCare Just a “Magic” Trick
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice We knew, and now new information reveals that the White House knew, that President Obama’s Executive Order to prevent abortion funding in ObamaCare is a sham. In order to gain enough votes to pass ObamaCare, President Obama made a “deal” with a group of supposedly “pro-life” [...]
A Threat From ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Many of you know the dangers posed by ObamaCare – the vast expansion of abortion and restrictions on liberty. Now the true abortion agenda of ObamaCare is even more clear. Through ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood could run a health care clinic in your child’s middle school or high school [...]
Obamacare: Community Groups Get $1 Bil For Ideas To Serve Needy
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A controversial Medicare and Medicaid Innovation center created by Obamacare will give “community-based organizations” and other qualified groups $1 billion to devise “compelling new ideas” to deliver better services to those “with the highest health care needs.” The allocation is the perfect [...]
UPDATE: ObamaCare Opposition Growing
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The response has been overwhelming. In the first 24 hours after the Supreme Court announced it would determine the constitutionality of ObamaCare, nearly 40,000 Americans expressed their opposition to this flawed law and signed on to our upcoming amicus brief urging the Justices to declare the [...]
ObamaCare, the Supreme Court, and Our Schizophrenic Constitution
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice At present we have a schizophrenic constitution — at least as interpreted by several decades of Supreme Court precedent. In the arena of civil liberties, the power of the federal government is properly fenced. From free speech to search and seizure to any number of areas — enumerated and [...]
ObamaCare: A Decisive Moment
Jay Sekulow, ACLJ The U.S. Supreme Court has just agreed to review and decide the constitutionality of ObamaCare – the pro-abortion health care law enacted against the clear will of the American people. The Supreme Court will now decide once and for all whether this law, which is an unprecedented expansion of government power and uses our [...]
ObamaCare Cases: What’s at Stake?
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice This post is co-authored with Erik Zimmerman, ACLJ Associate Counsel. As we noted previously, the Supreme Court recently agreed to consider whether the “individual mandate,” the key provision of the massive, unpopular federal health care law passed in early 2010 commonly known as [...]
Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Mandate and Severability as ACLJ Urged
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Today, the Supreme Court officially announced that it will decide the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Just three weeks ago the ACLJ filed an amicus curia brief to the Court on behalf of 105 Members of Congress and tens of thousands of Americans urging it to take up this landmark case. Our [...]
ACLJ Readies for ObamaCare Battle at Supreme Court
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice This is a move that we clearly expected. The Supreme Court of the United States today agreed to hear several ObamaCare challenges - putting the issue of the constitutionality of the flawed law front-and-center with a decision by the high court just months before the November 2012 [...]
Supreme Court Will Hear the “ObamaCare” Lawsuit
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Today the U. S. Supreme Court announced it will hear all arguments involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as "ObamaCare"). Liberty Counsel represents Liberty University and two private individuals who object to government-mandated health insurance. This Court will hear a [...]
Obamacare Increases Premiums and Kills Jobs
Kathryn Nix, Heritage Foundation Even without Obamacare, the United States faces rising health care costs and an economy struggling to recover from the recent downturn. Despite its supporters’ promises, the health care law does not solve these problems. A study released today by the National Federation of Independent Business highlights the [...]
Ohio hits Romney
By Ellie Velinska Forcing people to buy health insurance was rejected by the voters of Ohio in the 2011 special elections. The result hurts Mitt Romney, who fathered the idea of individual mandate by implementing it as governor of Massachusetts. President Obama (who forced the penalty on the whole nation) was against this approach when he [...]
ObamaCare Decision Disappointing – Appeal to Come
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's a decision that is disappointing. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected our appeal in an ObamaCare challenge - an appeal which argued that the individual mandate, which forces Americans to purchase health insurance, violates the [...]
