Healthcare

Judge Rules Healthcare Law Unconstitutional

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A Florida judge could on Monday become the second U.S. judge to declare President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law unconstitutional, in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. [...]

Vinson has suggested strongly that he too will rule the individual mandate oversteps constitutional limits on federal authority. He may also move to invalidate the entire law, by granting the plaintiff states’ request for an injunction to halt its implementation. [...]

The 70-year-old appointee of President Ronald Reagan even noted that he himself had been uninsured, paying out of pocket when the first of his five children was born.

As GottaLaff points out, the government is going to appeal and we'll eventually see this in the Supreme Court.

But hang on -- isn't this an example of an "activist" judge? I thought conservatives hated activist judges.