Virginia — Health-care reform’s individual mandate, a core piece of Democrats’ crowning legislative achievement, is unconstitutional. So sayeth U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson, a Republican appointee who issued a ruling this afternoon in a lawsuit brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

Virginia — A federal district judge in Virginia ruled on Monday that the keystone provision in the Obama health care law is unconstitutional, becoming the first court in the country to invalidate any part of the sprawling act and insuring that appellate courts will receive contradictory opinions from below. Judge Henry E. Hudson, who was […]