Tea Party Candidate to sue federal government since AG won't!

[Matt Collins]

Van Irion, a Republican candidate in the Tennessee Third, is filing his own lawsuit today challenging the constitutionality of health-care reform.

http://www.van4congress.org/news/


Candidate Irion To File Federal Lawsuit Against “Obamacare”
April 8, 2010, chattanoogan.com

Van Irion, an attorney and candidate for the 3rd Congressional District of Tennessee said he will file a constitutional challenge to the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” today.


He said he planned to file the lawsuit at 2 p.m. at the United States District Court in Chattanooga.


Attorney Irion said he considered taking the action after his trip to Nashville last month to support the Health Care Freedom Act and other bills proposed “to protect Tennessean’s against Obamacare.”


He said, “It became evident to me that the attorney general was unlikely to take action. Tuesday’s announcement simply confirmed what I suspected.”The attorney general’s analysis misses the point. Mr. Cooper bases his conclusion about the constitutionality of the Tennessee state bills on the assumption that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is per se constitutional. That is the very issue at stake here.


“Is the PPACA constitutional or not? If not, then states have every right to defend themselves from its enforcement.”


He said his suit will be challenging the constitutionality of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” on behalf of one lead citizen of Tennessee. He said that individuals and companies wishing to join the suit as plaintiffs to create a class action “against Obamacare” can contact him personally at van@van4congress.org.

To join the suit – go to http://www.van4congress.org/contact/obamacare-class-action/ (http://www.van4congress.org/contact/obamacare-class-action/)

[Matt Collins]

From today's news site:



As he promised (http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2010/04/08/if-the-ag-wont-do-it-irion-will/), Van Irion, a Republican candidate in the Tennessee Third, filed a lawsuit seeking to have the health-care reform law ruled unconstitutional. His plantiff? Anthony Shreeve - a tea-party activist who quit the organizing committee for the Tea Party Nation convention at Opryland because of the high ticket prices and then became one of Judson Phillip’s fiercest critics.


The lawsuit alleges Shreeve had his constitutional rights violated by the passage of “Obamacare” (as the reform is referred to throughout) and that President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid violated their oaths of office.
Read the filing here (http://politics.nashvillepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1-main.pdf).

[Matt Collins]

Here is a video of Van being interviewed by the Judge:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4167298/lawsuit-challenges-obamacare/?playlist_id=87937

[Matt Collins]

Mr. Irion said he has set a deadline of May 31 for other plaintiffs to join at which time the complaint will be amended to add all of the co-plaintiffs that have signed on.
“We are deeply gratified that so many citizens have asserted their individual rights and joined us in this lawsuit,” said Mr. Irion. “We believe the administration and Congress clearly exceeded the legal bounds established in the Constitution and specifically the 10th Amendment. We wanted to do more than just talk about it.”