Posted on 08/02/2017 8:30:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
It became harder Monday night for President Donald Trump to help engineer the collapse of the Affordable Care Act.
A federal court ruled that attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia would be allowed to intervene in a case over crucial subsidies known as cost-sharing-reduction payments. ...
In 2016 a judge ruled in favor of the House, saying the CSR payments were illegal because Congress did not appropriate them. ...
But on Monday, the court ruled that the 17 states and DC could intervene and ... said ending the payments would be damaging to the states' citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Time to STOP this MADNESS where ONE lousy leftist judge can stop everything good!
US House of Reps. v. Burwell - Case 1:14-cv-01967-rmc - September 9, 2015
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER
United States District Judge
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The President should proceed and let the courts take him to court, the Supreme Court. Meanwhile the subsidies are curtailed
The courts force payments for all kinds of things on all levels of government that they can’t afford and is unconstitutional. The problem is, the governments aren’t the actual actual payers, it’s the taxpayers. If the taxpayers refuse to fund the government how will they pay? Can the taxpayers appeal since they are the actual ones that are affected by these judges’ rulings? Rhetorical questions.
It's been that way for some time. Uneducated people don't notice, and well-fed and entertained people don't care.
Heck, SCOTUS has issued rulings based on obvious hallucinations, and the Congress barely remarks on it, let alone act on it.
This "three part checks and balances" gig is united in its own interests, which appears to be pandering to the masses.
All Trump needs to Tweet is “Enforce it!”
I thought the bailout expiration was actually in the text of Ebolacare. Now they’re saying we can ignore the ACA after all?? Woo hoo!
You forgot pissed on.
Seems to me, then, that those states should pony up the poayments themselves if they feel their folks are impacted. The courts do not have the power to compell the Congress to appropriate money and
I doubt the Secretary can be compelled to do so either. The power of Zerocare is in Tom Price’s hands...
I would rather see him rewrite the law wholesale...just like it was written by whats-her-face and Burwell.
Judging based on “outcomes” and not on the law is not judging, it’s legislating from the bench.
ROTFL. The courts power is plenary. It's all in the rhetoric.
Appeal it.
BTW, have an article coming out on how Trump is killing it on judges. He likely will surpass Reagan in number of confirmations in his first year.
Yep - “Judges/courts” deciding that because some laws are going to cause some citizens to be inconvenienced, the law should be ignored - they obviously think the Constitution contains a “Noble Cause” clause...
LOL. The motion to intervene was filed (and granted) in the appellate court.
Then this “a federal court” can pay for this obamacare debacle out of their budget.
While a Federal Court is reaching when it compels a state to expend funds for any any purpose, they are dreaming in another world when they think they can compel the US Congress to do anything.
Heretofore, any Judicial orders have been voluntarily complied with by both the Legislative and Executive branches.
I look forward to the day that stops, in a very public, high-profile way.
I think there was a case out of California (Hollingsworth v. Perry) where the lower courts ruled against a voter approved referendum (Prop 8) and the state refused to appeal. The proponents of the referendum attempted to carry the appeal to the Supreme Court, but the Court ruled that while the State could appeal, the proponents had no standing. Sometime it just depends on whose ox is being gored.
Courts are outcome-driven institutions.
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