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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Dem Star Sheila Jackson Lee: Repealing Obamacare Is Unconstitutional

by Jim Hoft



Dem Star Sheila Jackson Lee: Repealing Obamacare Is Unconstitutional: "

Remember as you read this: She’s one of the stars in the Democratic Party.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee argued today that repealing Obamacare was unconstitutional.

The American Spectator reported:


Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution.


Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare, Jackson Lee said repealing the law by passing Republicans’ H.R. 2 violates both the Fifth Amendment’s right to due process and the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause.


“The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due process,” she said in a speech on the House floor moments ago. “That is what H.R. 2 does and I rise in opposition to it. And I rise in opposition because it is important that we preserve lives and we recognize that 40 million-plus are uninsured.


She continued, “Can you tell me what’s more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection under the law?”


What kind of constitutional mumble-jumble is that?

That’s just embarrassing.

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