this is actually the second time. the first round of blooms [not very profuse] was about mid-late november.
]]>This means the Judge will get out a decision quickly, which is one of the reasons for assigning it to him, as a Senior Judge he only deals with one case at a time and doesn’t have anything else on his schedule.
]]>b-b-b-but, my camellias are blooming right now and the judge is ruling now! clearly a conflict of interest!
]]>The reporters in the court room for oral arguments say that the smart money is on the entire thing being ruled unconstitutional based on the mandate. There was no severability clause and he isn’t going to cut Congress any slack, like Judge Hudson did.
Since there are no camellias involved, Judge Vinson is the president of The Camellia Society, there doesn’t seem room for a conflict of interest charge. He just seemed to indicate that requiring people to buy a commercial product is well beyond the power granted by the Commerce clause. The same reason Judge Hudson ruled against it.
The case in Pensacola will be appealed to the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, not the 4th Circuit, so there will be cases decided in different Circuits which is one of the reasons for the Supreme Court to get involved.
I see no reason to waste time on the District court decisions, and everyone knows where this is going to be decided.
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