FRC, 30 Members of Congress Submit Brief Urging Supreme Court to Throw Out Entire Obamacare Law

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) was joined today by 30 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in NFIB v. Sebelius, supporting two of the petitions for certiorari in that case, the first filed by the National Federation of Independent Business and the second by 26 states.

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The Supreme Court brief was coauthored by Klukowski and eminent constitutional scholar Professor Nelson Lund of George Mason University. Of the amicus brief Klukowski made the following comments:

"We are honored that so many Members of Congress joined our brief. At first severability sounds arcane, but as we saw in the lower court it is the essential key to striking down Obamacare entirely. It's not enough to only strike down the individual mandate. It's only one section in a 450-section law. Hundreds of other provisions in Obamacare will kill jobs, ration healthcare and fund abortion, all while bankrupting healthcare providers and burdening America's families.

"We look forward to building on our success regarding severability in the lower court, helping the excellent lawyers representing NFIB and the states persuade the Supreme Court why the individual mandate is one of those rare provisions requiring the entire law to go down."

FRC has submitted amicus briefs at every level of this Obamacare lawsuit. At the trial-court level FRC's brief, authored by FRC's Ken Klukowski, was quoted and adopted by Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida when he struck down the entire Obamacare law as unconstitutional.

Members signing onto the amicus brief include:

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, 6th district
Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, 6th district
Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee, 6th district
Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, 7th district
Rep. Charles Boustany, M.D., of Louisiana, 7th district
Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, 5th district
Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio, 1st district
Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, 4th district
Rep. Blake Farenthold of Texas, 27th district
Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, 8th district
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, 1st district
Rep. Louie Gohmert (former Judge) of Texas, 1st district
Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia, 9th district
Rep. Andy Harris, M.D., of Maryland, 1st district
Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, 52nd district
Rep. Steve King of Iowa, 5th district
Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, 1st district
Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado, 5th district
Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, 3rd district
Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma, 5th district
Rep. Dan Lungren (former California Attorney General) of California, 3rd district
Rep. Randy Neugebauer of Texas, 19th district
Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico, 2nd district
Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas, 4th district
Rep. Tom Price, M.D., of Georgia, 6th district
Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin, 8th district
Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, 1st district
Rep. Jean Schmidt of Ohio, 2nd district
Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, 21st district, Chairman, House Committee on the Judiciary
Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois, 8th district

To read FRC's amicus brief, click here: http://www.frc.org/nfibamicusbrief

SOURCE Family Research Council