Posted on 06/12/2018 5:04:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A senior career Department of Justice (DOJ) official has resigned, one week after the Trump administration made a controversial announcement that it would argue key parts of ObamaCare are unconstitutional.
A DOJ official confirmed to The Hill that Joel McElvain resigned and his last day is July 6, but declined to comment on whether the resignation was due to last week’s announcement.
Last week, the DOJ wrote in a filing that it wouldn’t defend ObamaCare’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The move broke with historical practice, where the DOJ defends federal laws, and sided in part with a challenge to the law brought by a coalition of Republican-led states.
According to the Post, McElvain had worked at DOJ for over 20 years and submitted his resignation Friday, the day after DOJ announced it wouldn’t defend parts of ObamaCare. DOJ’s decision reversed years of legal work McElvain and the department had amassed to defend ObamaCare in court.
On Capitol Hill Tuesday, Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services secretary, said that the administration's decision is not a "policy position" but a constitutional and legal position.
Last year, Republicans repealed the requirement that Americans have health insurance or pay a fine, known as the individual mandate.
A coalition of Republican-led states sued in February, arguing the law in its entirety was no longer constitutional without the individual mandate. The administration didn’t agree that the whole law needed to be overturned, but rather that two provisions protecting people with pre-existing conditions should be.
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Sounds like swamp draining going on
Paging Powers Boothe...
The real question is:HOW DO WE GET MORE OF THESE LEFTIES TO RESIGN ON THEIR OWN...ON MASS AND THEN, HOW DO WE GET GOOD GUYS TO REPLACE THEM ALL?
Sessions doesn't seem to be too interested in getting his job done, so self draining will have to do.
#Winning
That is in contrast with the incumbent Republican AG, Cynthia Coffman, who believed she had a duty to defend Colorado laws against legal challenge - including the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
Once again, Democrat's "principles" are very flexible.
Well, bye.
So the DOJ person doesn’t want to make sure that laws are Constitutional? Then they really do not belong at the DOJ.
I am ok with this. If he didnt feel comfortable, he just resigned. Much better than leaking, crying to the press and making an all out SJW cryfest.
He left - good
Well, bye!
Pretty rich if he was a holdover from the Soetoro Regime!
Obama ordered the DOJ to NOT defend the Sanctity of Marriage law.
Sorry DOMA (defense of marriage act) not Sanctity of marriage.
Anyway DOJ did not defend it in court. So this is far from unprecedented
.........among MANY other laws they refused to enforce.
Sure, guy got his 20 years in and is now retiring on a nice pension. Probably get hired by libtard thinktank or legal group.
“The move broke with historical practice”
Like Obongo refusing to defend “The Defense of Marriage Act”. I guess they forgot about that /s.
Winning!
I wonder whether this story is true.
Arguing against pre-existing condition coverage is a political loser. Although it’s a stupid requirement, it was THE most popular part of Obamacare. People want some Kind of protection being permanently barred from getting insurance.
Guess the writer forgot about Obama's DOJ failure to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (Pub. L. 104-199, Sept. 21, 1996, 110 Stat. 2419).
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