The old saw is that it is unfair to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person, and if ever there was a witless human being it is Bryan Fischer. And his discussion of the recent court ruling on health care reform is rather amusing:
Judge Roger Vinson declared the entire ObamaCare monstrosity “void” earlier this week. This means it is a legal nullity. He set the whole thing aside. It has no force of law, period.
Well no, that isn’t what it means. The ruling will certainly be stayed pending appeal, if not by Vinson himself then by the appeals court. It will also almost certainly be overturned by the appeals court because Supreme Court precedent is squarely on the side of the broadest imaginable interpretation of the commerce clause (whether that should be the case or not is irrelevant; lower courts are still bound by precedent).
(more…)