Just announced a short while ago by Mark Levin, via Facebook.

From Landmark Legal Foundation:

Landmark Legal Foundation to File Suit to Stop President’s Health Plan if ‘Slaughter Rule’ is Used

(LEESBURG, VA, MARCH 17, 2010)…Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.

While Landmark will hardly be the only firm to file suit over this Leftist gangrape of the Constitution, it is good to see they have taken the lead on this most critical issue. Also, as Levin likes to say, “I don’t lose.”

Best Facebook comment:

I’m going to deem my taxes are paid

Also, GOP leaders are exploring their legal options.

From The Washington Post: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

Republican lawyers warn Democrats of “deem and pass” consequences

1. Less than 24 hours after House Democratic leaders floated the idea of using a parliamentary procedure to avoid a recorded vote on the Senate health care bill, a group of Republican lawyers — including the legal counsels for the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee as well as high profile campaign attorney like Ben Ginsberg of Patton Boggs and Cleta Mitchell of Foley & Lardner — penned an open letter making clear that such a tactic would not make Democrats immune from attacks on the bill in the fall campaign.

Citing an assertion from Rules Committee ranking member David Dreier (Calif.) that “a vote for the rule is a vote for the Senate bill,” the group wrote: “We believe it is accurate to state in public communications that the effect of a vote for any rule illustrated in [Dreier's memo] is a vote for the Senate bill and all of its provisions.” Put simply: Republicans believe that House Democrats using the “deem and pass” maneuver in no way prohibits GOP candidates and party committees from attacking them for “voting” for the Senate legislation.

The letter along with House Republican leaders’ vow to force a vote on the use of “deem and pass” is a reminder that GOPers believe the health care bill — no matter the outcome of the vote later this week (or weekend) — is something close to a silver bullet for them in the coming midterm elections. “The point here is that there is no cover for Democrats on this vote,” said Ken Spain, communications director of the NRCC — adding that the other side is “resorting to political and legislative trickery” to try and keep from being attacked in a campaign setting.

While all of the parliamentary jockeying is almost certain to be forgotten by voters by this fall (if it was ever noticed in that first place), Republicans want to make sure that targeted Democrats know that they will be held accountable for every nook and cranny of the Senate legislation whether or not they go on the record in support or opposition to it.

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