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by Sharon Rondeau
(May 21, 2022) — In September 2010, New Jersey citizen, military veteran and constitutional scholar Nicholas Purpura and co-plaintiff Donald R. Laster filed a 19-point lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as “Obamacare,” which eventually was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in late 2011. The law, passed in December 2009 without a single Republican “yea” vote, was unconstitutional, Purpura and Laster maintained, because as a revenue-raising bill, it should have originated in the House of Representatives in accordance with Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution.
In addition, Purpura and Laster wrote, the bill “prohibits judicial review” and violated numerous federal laws and protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. “You can’t prove me wrong,” Purpura said.
The Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs’ petition for a Writ of Certiorari in January 2012, and a petition for rehearing was “denied without comment” the
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