Opening Paragraph of Texas District Judge Opinion on Obamacare, Link

Gun Watch ^ | 16 December, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

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I was mistaken. There is no requirement for a budget, as such, in the Constitution.

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In short, the Supreme Court held the Individual Mandate was beyond Congress’s Interstate Commerce Power but salvageable under its Tax Power. The decision was highly splintered and warrants explanation.

On the SC's decision upholding ObamaCare. Nice.

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IV. ANALYSIS The Court’s analysis involves three separate inquiries and conclusions. First, the Court finds the Parties satisfy the applicable standing requirements. Second, the Court finds the Individual Mandate can no longer be fairly read as an exercise of Congress’s Tax Power and is still impermissible under the Interstate Commerce Clause—meaning the Individual Mandate is unconstitutional. Third, the Court finds the Individual Mandate is essential to and inseverable from the remainder of the ACA.

Side note, download Foxit Reader. It has a simple text select tool, just like copying text from Word or webpages. I would think Adobe would have one too, but theirs might be the paid version only.

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I imagine any PDF reader would do that. This one is probably a scanned image, or some special non-selectable text attribute.