Ken Cuccinelli. (AP Photo)

A win for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in his quest to strike down Barack Obama’s health care reform law — U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled in Richmond this afternoon that the law’s requirement for Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. Virginia recently passed a statute which nixed the requirement for residents to carry health insurance. The White House apparently expected to lose the case, which seems bound to come in front of the Supreme Court at some point in the future. In his decision, Hudson asserted that the health care law’s requirement for residents to purchase insurance does not fall under the purview of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution covering interstate economics, because it is an act of inactivity. The Virginia lawsuit is one of 25 currently existing lawsuits regarding the new health care laws across the country.