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DOJ changes course: Entire ACA should be struck down
Modern healthcare ^
| 3/25/19
| Susannah Luthi
Posted on 03/25/2019 7:21:11 PM PDT by Revel
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday took a broader stance against the Affordable Care Act, telling a federal appeals court the entire law can be discarded.
The agency called on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a district court ruling invalidating the entire Obamacare law, saying it "is not urging that any portion of the district court's judgment be reversed."
The one-page letter came hours after 21 Democratic state attorneys general argued that Congress' zeroing out of the penalty did not make the individual mandate unconstitutional, as U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor decided in mid-December.
At the heart of the case is whether the entire Affordable Care Act can stand without the individual mandate penalty, which the GOP-led Congress effectively eliminated in the 2017 tax law.
"With the amount of the tax set at zero, the remaining minimum coverage provision becomes simply precatoryprecisely as the amending Congress intended," the brief stated. "It is no more constitutionally objectionable than the 'sense of the Congress' resolutions that Congress often adopts."
(Excerpt) Read more at modernhealthcare.com ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; aca; incometaxes; individualmandate; infanticide; medicareforall; obamacare; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; trumpdoj; winning
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To: Revel
Still not tired of winning. I liked my plan, bit I couldn’t keep my plan. Now I pay much more for a worse plan. Thanks Obama.
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posted on
03/25/2019 7:54:49 PM PDT
by
matt04
To: Revel
I think they spelled “TOM FITTON” wrong.
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posted on
03/25/2019 8:04:42 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
03/25/2019 8:14:53 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(this tagline space is now available)
To: Revel
I have been seeing commercials for extra dental coverage that was not available before. I think it is a forerunner of medical coverage where you do not have to buy coverage you do not need.
I think this is what was once called capitalism....
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posted on
03/25/2019 8:16:45 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(My sister said the only thing that did not was the clock. GE has spare parts)
To: Revel
We have a REAL AG!
And a REAL DOJ once again.
Barr is kicking ass.
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posted on
03/25/2019 8:16:59 PM PDT
by
Scott from the Left Coast
(You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
To: M. Thatcher
Yep. Once the DOJ gets corrected, it will become awesome. Stay tuned.
To: Revel
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posted on
03/25/2019 8:18:04 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: conservative98
Bwah-hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Good one!
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posted on
03/25/2019 8:20:03 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
( (optional, printed after my name on post))
To: Scott from the Left Coast
I am praying you are right!
To: adorno
Now the only things near his heart are worms :)
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posted on
03/25/2019 8:38:37 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
To: neodad
Best day since the day after Election Day 2016! Yeah - it's all the more delicious because you know that after Friday, the Progs were looking to find some kind of "silver lining" today. Not happening.
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posted on
03/25/2019 9:01:32 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: conservative98
Saving that one to my iPad photo roll!!
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posted on
03/25/2019 9:02:14 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
("Socialism is a war crime against one's own people." -- tinyowl on 03/11/2019)
To: CMailBag
So, when it gets to the SC Roberts will side with the liberals and be outnumbered. Hee hee
To: Revel
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday took a broader stance against the Affordable Care Act, telling a federal appeals court the entire law can be discarded.I wonder if that will make Ann Coulter happy?
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posted on
03/25/2019 11:18:38 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(What, exactly, was the “only evil continually,” that was going on in the days of Noah?)
To: conservative98
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posted on
03/26/2019 12:20:49 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: conservative98
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posted on
03/26/2019 12:40:48 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: Revel
Winning! More please.
JoMa
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posted on
03/26/2019 2:56:25 AM PDT
by
joma89
To: Revel
Looks like we have our own tsunami working
To: Revel
Haven't seen the crypto-never-Trumpers posting much since Friday. Curious.
Still not tired of so much winning.
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posted on
03/26/2019 3:11:36 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
To: Mark17
I wonder if that will make Ann Coulter happy? I wonder if anything can make Ann Coulter happy.
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