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Trump can't count on the

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 02:08:35 +0000

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Trump can't count on the Supreme Court to kill Obamacare - @joanbiskupic https://t.co/PbAp6ke17a
— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) December 19, 2018

Conservative policy adviser

artappraiser — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:43:08 +0000

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Conservative policy adviser says judge's move to strike down ObamaCare was a 'case of judicial activism'

@ TheHill.com, Dec. 18, with video

Conservative policy adviser Avik Roy said in an interview that aired Tuesday on "Rising" that a U.S. District Court judge's move last week to strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a "classic case of judicial activism."

"I totally agree with some of the right-of-center writers, and obviously liberal writers, who have said this is a classic case of judicial activism, of [the] judge just saying 'I don't like ObamaCare so I'm just going to invent a reasoning to say that the whole law is unconstitutional,'" Roy, the president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, told Hill.TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on Monday [....]

. @ezraklein to me just now:

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:49:23 +0000

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. @ezraklein to me just now: “Just like old times!)
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) December 15, 2018

Extremely interesting that

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:48:53 +0000

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Extremely interesting that the very reality-based Ezra Klein would predict this:

I don't think this kind of nonsense is going to kill the Affordable Care Act. But the continued assault on Obamacare is very much why Democrats are going to pass some version of Medicare-for-All next time they hold power.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 15, 2018

He's basically predicting counter-reaction to severe overreach. To me, it is a statement about the results of overreach by any "side".

excellent 'splainer in op-ed

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 06:22:42 +0000

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excellent 'splainer in op-ed @ NYTimes.com

A Partisan Ruling on Obamacare: A decision by a judge in Texas striking down the totality of the Affordable Care Act has little basis in law.

By Cristian Farias (Mr. Farias is a member of the editorial board.)

After sitting on a ruling for months, a federal judge in Texas has given the Trump administration and a group of Republican-led states exactly what they asked for, and then some: the invalidation of the entire Affordable Care Act.

Don't panic. The ruling, issued late on Friday and only one day before the end of the law’s annual open enrollment period, is not a model of constitutional or statutory analysis. It’s instead a predictable exercise in motivated reasoning — drafted by a jurist with a history of ruling against policies and laws advanced by President Barack Obama.

The reason the judge, Reed O’Connor, gets these cases isn’t a mystery: Texas and its allied states know the game and shop these lawsuitsright into Judge O’Connor’s courtroom.

Another thing that isn’t a mystery? The genesis of this latest attack on Obamacare. Disenchanted that a Republican-controlled federal government wouldn’t repeal every word of the law, Texas and a coalition of states tried a sleight of hand: They leaned on President Trump’s 2017 tax bill, known officially as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — which zeroed out the tax penalty of the health care law’s individual mandate — and argued that the mandate itself was unconstitutional [....]