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6B – Daily News – Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Opponents take last stand against health care bill By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer In a defiant last stand against a newly passed health care overhaul, opponents are trying everything they can to stop it from becoming the law of the land. Republicans in the Senate are plan- ning parliamentary maneuvers to keep a companion bill from reaching the presi- dent’s desk. And lawmakers in at least 30 states are working to prevent what they say is an unconstitutional mandate forcing Americans to have health insur- ance. Experts say none of it is likely to work, but it will keep the issue, and the outrage, alive until Election Day. ‘‘I am surprised by the mobilization of the states. It does strike me as a kind of civil disobedience, a declaration that we’re not going to follow the law of the land,’’ said Mark Hall, a professor of law and public health at Wake Forest University. ‘‘It doesn’t make sense. The federal Constitution couldn’t be any clearer that federal law is supreme,’’ Hall added. The House passed the plan late Sun- day, sparking a variety of protests and threats less than a day later. By Monday, at least nine state attor- neys general had promised to file suit against the federal government as soon as Obama signs the bill. The states were Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Michigan, Nebraska, Washington. Officials in North Dakota were weighing whether to join the case. Virginia and Idaho have passed legis- lation aimed at blocking the bill’s insur- ance requirement from taking effect in their states. In Michigan, a petition drive was launched to put a measure on the ballot asking voters if they want to exempt the state from the overhaul. In Arizona, lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment that will be put on the ballot in November. And in Colorado, a citizens’ group was collect- ing signatures to put a comparable amendment on the ballot. Regardless of whether such mea- sures are enacted, they will give oppo- nents of the federal bill a chance to keep the issue in front of voters until the fall. For the states, it’s a question of indi- vidual rights. Many say Congress does not have the authority to require citizens to buy goods or services they may not want. ‘‘Just by virtue of being a resident of the United States, never before in histo- ry have we been required to purchase something,’’ said Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for Republican Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II. In Washington, Obama’s health care overhaul isn’t completely finished. Although the main bill has passed both houses of Congress, a series of changes sought by House Democrats was headed to the Senate, where debate is expected to begin as early as Tuesday. Senate Democrats hope to approve the revisions and send the complete bill directly to Obama, but Republicans are determined to drag out the process by offering scores of amendments. Republican Sen. John McCain told KTVK in Phoenix that the Senate maneuvering is only the first line in the battle against a measure passed in an ‘‘unsavory, sausage-making, Chicago- style process.’’ ‘‘We will fight in the courts, and we will fight in the rallies and the tea par- ties and the town hall meetings. And we will fight in the ballot booth, and we will prevail. And we will defeat this because the United States of America and Arizona can’t afford this,’’ McCain said. ‘‘People are mad, and they’re more angry than I’ve ever seen them, and they should be.’’ Several of the state proposals to block the plan surfaced in Republican- controlled states, but some were put before Democratic-controlled legisla- tures. In Alabama, four bills to block some provisions have been introduced in the Legislature. The Democratic House leader, Rep. Ken Guin, said he will start studying the proposals but was doubtful they could move forward with only 10 days left in the legislative session. He said he wants to study the bill Congress passed before he takes a position. The state proposals would establish a state right for citizens to pay medical services out of their own pockets and would prohibit penalties against those who refuse to buy health insurance. Many constitutional scholars say the so-called ‘‘health care freedom’’ laws and amendments do not have any chance of succeeding for one simple reason: The Constitution establishes that national laws take precedence over state laws. ‘‘They can sue, but I can’t imagine a scenario in which a judge would enjoin the implementation of the federal health care bill,’’ said Lawrence Friedman, a law professor who teaches constitution- al law at the New England School of Law in Boston. ‘‘Federal law is supreme. There’s really no room for doubt that federal law controls,’’ he said. But others say it is not that simple. Dave Roland, a lawyer and policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute, a non- partisan think tank in St. Louis, said the state constitutional amendments, which focus on creating new rights for indi- viduals, could make a plausible court challenge to the federal health care mandates. ‘‘I think there is a very distinct pos- sibility that the Supreme Court might say that where you have a freedom secured by a state constitution that it might warrant protection, even against a federal statute,’’ Roland said. States challenging the federal bill say they will also argue that the Consti- tution’s commerce clause — which was intended to allow the free flow of goods among the states — is not broad enough to allow Congress to require citizens to purchase goods or services they may not want, such as health insurance. ‘‘I suspect that we will see a tsunami of litigation,’’ said Clint Bolick, litiga- tion director for the conservative Gold- water Institute in Phoenix, which helped draft a constitutional amend- ment in Arizona that will be on this November’s ballot. Because the individual mandate does not take effect until 2014, the states challenging that have time to work on legislation. Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center, a think tank named for the constitutional amendment that says powers not granted to the federal government are reserved for the states, said there have been other state efforts to circumvent federal laws, most notably in the case of medical marijua- na. Boldin said 14 states now allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, even though it is prohibited under fed- eral law. ‘‘To me what that indicates is when there are enough people refusing to comply with the federal government and enough states passing laws that also refuse to comply, it’s very difficult for the federal government to enforce their laws,’’ Boldin said. Odds & Ends Burglar cooks chicken, flees HILLSDALE, N.J. (AP) — Police in a New Jersey town say some- one broke into a restaurant and cooked a chicken and rice dish before fleeing — leaving behind a pile of dirty dishes. They say the hungry burglar on Saturday broke through an exhaust fan in the back wall of the Matsu Sushi Grill in Hillsdale, a town of 10,000 residents just northwest of New York City. The burglar got chicken from a freezer and cooked it with rice in a frying pan. Detective Robert Francaviglia (frank-uh-VIL’-ee-uh) says the bur- glar ignored $200 in the cash register and took only the chicken and rice. He says the culprit may have been a homeless person searching for food. Police say the break-in is similar to one at a nearby fried-chicken fast-food restaurant last year. Fugitive found in hospital gown PITTSBURGH (AP) — A fugitive wanted for bank robbery in Michigan is in custody after police say he walked out of a Pittsburgh hospital and into a bar wearing only his hospital gown, with an intra- venous needle still his arm. Authorities say police were called to JR’s Bar Friday night after 20- year-old Elbert Lewis Thompson II walked in from Allegheny Gen- eral Hospital. Thompson was taken into custody a short time later. Police in Vandergrift say Thompson had been detained by officers after fleeing a traffic stop there, about 25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. 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