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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 precatory—precisely 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
Trump - the gift that just won’t quit!
MAGA!!!
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posted on
03/26/2019 3:55:33 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: Revel
Why wasn’t this whole thing thrown out when it was ruled a tax. Tax bills are supposed to originate in the House but this originated in the Senate.
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posted on
03/26/2019 4:29:11 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: Revel
-——precatory——
Hmmmm......precatory is beyond my capacity
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posted on
03/26/2019 4:34:23 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
To: bigbob
Just now, Kilmeade took Donna Brazile to the woodshed and beat up on her. When she came back she was all Kumbaya about Americans coming together .
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posted on
03/26/2019 4:37:39 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
To: bert
...she was all Kumbaya about Americans coming together .
_____________________________________
eff her & Fox (no TV since 08)
Let’s come together to:
restore rule of law
due process
nation of laws
all legal citizens are equal
force Brazile to tell all she knows
To: M. Thatcher
Bob Barr Are you referring to former Congressman Bob Barr or the current Attorney General William Barr?
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:02:50 AM PDT
by
ELS
To: Revel
Take it down! Obamacare. It’s an anchor!
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:22:33 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Revel
Take it down! Obamacare. It’s an anchor!
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:22:34 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: All
DC had no authority to create such a _law_ as ACA. That includes Congress, POTUS and SCOTUS. All in violation of We-The-People’s contract which allows them to exist: USConstitution.
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posted on
03/26/2019 8:22:53 AM PDT
by
veracious
(UN=OIC=Islam ; USAgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
To: Revel
WINNING! Thank you Lord for President Trump and AG Barr!
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posted on
03/26/2019 9:46:03 AM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: Revel
I can’t stand so much winning!/S
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posted on
03/26/2019 10:28:14 AM PDT
by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Revel
DOJ changes course: Entire ACA should be struck down
Partner, this is like the most beautiful music to our ears.
One SC justice could have stopped it at the tracks and that was the Chief Justice Roberts, who was nominated by W.
To: Sirius Lee
"Haven't seen the crypto-never-Trumpers posting much since Friday. Curious. Still not tired of so much winning." They went from smiling and grinning and warning us again how President Trump had lost it to being very quiet. May the Trump curse pound and hammer them while we MAGA!😄
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posted on
03/27/2019 5:59:26 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Trump Tweeted his way out of the Deep State's grip. 23 Mar 2019 | Mark Steyn!)
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