From LegalNewsLine.com:

First, President Barack Obama supported Kamala Harris’ campaign for California attorney general. Now, she’s defending Obama’s federal health care reform package that has twice been ruled unconstitutional.

Harris led a group of state attorneys general in an amicus brief filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which is hearing the federal government’s appeal of a ruling in favor of the state of Virginia. A federal judge ruled in December that the health care law is unconstitutional.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli argued in his lawsuit challenging the law that a mandate requiring citizens to purchase health insurance or face a $695 annual penalty is unconstitutional and flies in the face of Virginia law.

Harris and nine other attorneys general disagree with Cuccinelli, who has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the appeal instead of the Fourth Circuit in the interest of a quick resolution.

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