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Written on February 20, 2012 in News, Press Releases
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Attention: Editors, News Directors and Reporters
Richmond, Virginia
Editorial
Monday, February 20, 2012
Personhood Measure: What’s it mean?
Any attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade would quickly collapse unless the courts, including the Supreme Court, are willing.
There is — to put it mildly — a slight difference of opinion about the scope of HB1, the personhood amendment sponsored by Del. Bob Marshall. Abortion-rights advocates call it nothing less than an attempt to outlaw all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Republican supporters of the measure say all it does is permit civil lawsuits against individuals who harm a fetus either through negligence or by assaulting the mother.
Who is right?
The bill does stipulate that life begins at conception and confers on unborn children “at every stage of development all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this Commonwealth.” That language may create, to use a cliché popular in Capitol Square, a camel’s nose under the tent. Read more
Written on February 16, 2012 in Press Releases
Delegate Lists Sources Easily Accessed on the Internet that Prove Accuracy of His Statement
RICHMOND, Feb. 16 – Delegate Bob Marshall is questioning a Richmond newspaper article accusing him of making a false claim about the danger of mercury contained in compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).
“I’m truly puzzled by the reporter’s cavalier and cynical treatment of this topic,” Marshall (R., Manassas) said today in remarks during a session of the Virginia House of Delegates, here.
“This article flies in the face of well-established and readily available facts regarding the serious dangers of mercury contamination, especially to pregnant women, infants and small children.”
The article at issue was published Monday (Feb. 13) in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It was prepared by Times-Dispatch reporter Sean Gorman for PolitiFact, a St. Petersburg, Fla., company purporting to research and determine whether statements by public officials are true or false. It was edited by Warren Fiske, another member of the Times-Dispatch staff and PolitiFact’s Virginia editor.
The article challenges a statement Marshall made in testimony at a Feb. 2 hearing of the House Commerce and Labor Subcommittee in which he said a shattered CFL bulb creates “a hazardous materials situation in your home.” Read more
Written on February 7, 2012 in News, Press Releases
“In moving to block two of the 20 tax increases imposed by Obamacare, Sen. Black and Del. Marshall have distinguished themselves as taxpayer heroes” -Grover Norquist
RICHMOND – Sen. Dick Black (R., Leesburg) and Del. Bob Marshall (R., Manassas) have joined forces in the Virginia General Assembly to protect Virginia taxpayers’ pocketbooks from two Obamacare tax increases costly to family budgets. By following the normal practice of conforming to federal tax law Virginia citizens income taxes will be automatically increased. SB 673 prevents this back-door, defacto move to raise taxes without accountability or transparency.
Sen. Black is the chief patron of Senate Bill 673, which would amend the Code of Virginia to “deconform” the Commonwealth’s tax rules from the federal tax increases contained in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Del. Marshall is the chief House patron of SB673. The Obamacare tax increases will go into effect without passage of SB 673.
The Black-Marshall legislation will be heard in the Senate Finance Committee at 9 a.m. on Tuesday (Feb. 8th) in Senate Room B of the General Assembly Building. Read more
Written on January 18, 2012 in News, Press Releases
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Louisiana v. Bryson et al
MARSHALL JOINS U.S. SUPREME COURT BRIEF ALLEGING MISUSE OF CENSUS
Alleges Obama Administration Is Violating Constitution, Laws in Counting Illegal Aliens
Del. Bob Marshall (R, 13th) has joined in a “friend of the court” brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Louisiana’s effort to file a “fast track” lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration’s decision to count millions of illegal aliens in the 2010 national census.
Louisiana state officials contend that their state unconstitutionally and unlawfully lost a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because data from the 2010 Census was used that includes non-resident immigrants living illegally in the United States.
“This case strikes at the very heart of the representative government we Americans hold dear,” Marshall said. “Our Constitution and our laws don’t grant equal representation to those who come here illegally and flagrantly violate that same Constitution and those same laws.” Read more
Written on December 8, 2011 in Press Releases
FOR RELEASE: On Receipt (December 7, 2011)
CONTACT: Del Bob Marshall, (703) 853-4213
Kaine ‘Is Very Confused’
DEL. MARSHALL SAYS Tim Kaine Misrepresents HIS Personhood Bill
‘We already have enough people in Washington who vote on bills without ever reading them.’
Del. Bob Marshall tonight (Wednesday, Dec. 7) accused Tim Kaine, the Democrats’ presumptive 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate, of mounting a “skewed attack on my personhood bill” in tonight’s early-bird Senate debate in Richmond.
“After seeing Tim Kaine’s skewed attack on my personhood bill (HB1), it is obvious he is very confused,” Marshall (R., 13th District) said.
“First of all, we tell third graders in Virginia’s public schools that human life begins at fertilization or conception. Scientists have definitively known when human life begins since at least the 1830’s. Why not Tim Kaine?
“Tim Kaine, a Harvard-educated attorney, claims that my personhood bill, HB 1, will outlaw birth control. The U.S. Supreme Court disagrees with Tim Kaine, because it upheld almost identical language in a Missouri statute from the 1980’s, 25 years ago, in the Webster v. Missouri case.
“None of the parade of horribles predicted today by Tim Kaine occurred when abortion was illegal, such as homicide prosecutions for women who abort their children or making miscarriages manslaughter. My measure passed the House of Delegates earlier this year, 62-36. Virginia’s entire press corps apparently slept through the legal earthquake Tim Kaine predicted would follow passage of my bill most likely because his claims are not true.
“My personhood bill creates a civil cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child. This cause of action already exists in the majority of states and is a natural complement to Virginia’s fetal homicide law. “Does Tim Kaine object to providing a legal remedy for parents whose beloved unborn baby is killed by the negligent or criminal act of a third party? Does anyone other than Tim Kaine really think that is a bad idea?
“Tim Kaine wants to serve in the US Senate. But if he refuses to understand the meaning of a simple seven line bill, what would he do in Washington as a Senator with bills longer than a single page? We already have enough people in Washington who vote on bills without ever reading them.”
Marshall’s HB1, prefiled for the Virginia General Assembly’s 2012 session and co-patroned by State Sen. Charles Colgan (D., 29th District), is summarized by the General Assembly’s Legislative Information Service as follows:
“Rights of unborn children. Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and constitutions of Virginia and the United States, precedents of the United States Supreme Court, and provisions to the contrary in the statutes of the Commonwealth.”
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Written on October 7, 2011 in News, Press Releases
Check out Delegate Marshall’s Press Release on the Richmond Federal Reserve’s Reversal of its position on the flying of the Gay Pride Flag! Press Release-Fed Reserve Rainbow Flag Reversal
Written on September 8, 2011 in News, Press Releases
Three Democrat appointed federal judges ruled today that Virginia and its citizens have no rights they can vindicate in federal court, recalling to mind the actions of British King George III, who “abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection” (Declaration of Independence). Their decision is at fundamental odds with legitimate, constitutional government.
While the Federal Fourth Circuit acknowledged that “Congress has imposed a potentially ‘harsh regime’ on some taxpayers,” which poses questions of “unusual legal, economic and political significance,” it still held that neither states such as Virginia, nor citizens may legally challenge the imposition of a congressional statute which Congress’ own Research Service concludes has no precedent in American history.*
The three federal judges appointed by Presidents Obama and Clinton claim that “a state has no interest in the rights of its individual citizens sufficient to justify such an invasion of federal sovereignty.” (Virginia v. Sebelius) Read more
Written on April 6, 2011 in Press Releases
MANASSAS, VA – As a representative elected by the people of my district and as chief patron of the Health Care Freedom Act, I thought it my responsibility to demonstrate this Assembly’s strong support of the action taken by our Attorney General to defend the constitutional rights of each Virginia citizen to make their own choice of health care and healthy living, and not to be forced by the Leviathan in Washington D.C. to live the way some unelected bureaucrat would require us to live.
What did we say to the Court of Appeals that was not already said by the Attorney General?
The Attorney General’s basic argument was that Obamacare’s mandate that every American purchase a health insurance policy or plan approved by the bureaucrats was unconstitutional and, therefore, the entire Obamacare statute was unconstitutional. As you know in the district court the Attorney General won only the first argument — that the individual mandate was unconstitutional — leaving the rest of it in place.
Our strategy was different. We argued that Obamacare in its entirety was unconstitutional and for that reason the individual mandate was unconstitutional. If our point is upheld, then all of Obamacare — not just the individual mandate — is unconstitutional. Read more
Written on December 13, 2010 in News, Press Releases
FOR RELEASE: On Receipt (December 13, 2010)
MARSHALL HAILS RULING HOLDING HEALTH CARE LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Del. Bob Marshall is hailing today’s U.S. District Court decision in a Virginia lawsuit declaring that the controversial federal health care reform law violates the United States Constitution.
“Judge Hudson’s ruling thwarts a power grab by the Obama Administration and Congress to extend their insidious reach further into our private lives,” Marshall (R., 13th) said.
“Clearly, Judge Hudson understands that the federal government can’t have it both ways in enforcing the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. It makes no sense, legally or otherwise, to expand federal authority over participating in interstate commerce to include those of us who choose not to participate.”
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Written on August 5, 2010 in News, Press Releases
August 5, 2010
For Immediate Release
Manassas, VA- Delegate Bob Marshall sent the attached memorandum to all Virginia Sheriff’s Departments concerning his recent inquiries into Virginia’s legal presence laws. After sending this memo to the Sheriffs it came to his attention that the Virginia American Civil Liberties Union had sent the attached letter to all Sheriff’s Departments today urging them to ignore the Attorney General’s recently issued opinion.
“I cannot understand why the ACLU would encourage law enforcement officers to ignorethe Attorney General’s opinion. The Attorney General is the highest ranking law enforcement official in Virginia,” said Marshall. “The ACLU’s position essentially allows alien terrorists and gang members to be untouchable in this country. We cannot allow this to continue.” Read more
