Montgomery, AL – Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has praised a Florida federal judge's ruling declaring the Obama administration's overhaul of the health care system unconstitutional.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson in Pensacola came on a lawsuit filed by Alabama and 25 other states.
Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 and he declared the entire law unconstitutional.
Strange said the president's health care plan would put the United States on a path where Congress could regulate ``every phase of our lives.''
U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus of Birmingham also praised Vinson's ruling. Bachus said the mandate to buy health insurance was an intrusion into personal liberty.
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