They haven’t lost anything yet. The Administration will request a rehearing by the full Appeals Court and they’ll overturn the three-judge ruling.
I was gonna say....show me. I’ll believe its dead when I see it.
. . . and that will drag the process out another year - according to plan.But as the WSJ pointed out a couple of days ago, the fact that Obama won in a different venue (notwithstanding that judges finding that:
Judge Roger Ferguson, writing for the Fourth Circuit whose King v. Burwell decision upholding the IRS was announced the same day, wrote that those challenging the government "have the better of the statutory construction arguments.)means that it is not Burwell (i.e., the administration) but King who is in a position to appeal that ruling - and that King need not ask for an en blanc hearing, but could elect to appeal directly to SCOTUS.