You want Trump another 4years? I do. So you don’t give the Democrats and their media chums the perfect way to get people to vote against Trump. This is just one battle in a war that we need Trump in the White House to win. Notice Barr did not say the law should remain as is only that removing it completely at this time is not the best course of action. And he is right. There is time enough to win this battle. It is more important to keep Trump in and to gain more seats in the House.
Too late. The administration lucked out when the Court decided not to hear the case this term. Otherwise Obamacare could well have been struck down in June. But saying that you thought it was unconstitutional last year and then suddenly deciding that it was constitutional this year isn't going to remove Texas v. U.S. from being made a campaign issue. The Democrats no doubt already have the political ads in the can ready to run. "Trump wants to take away your health care." "Trump wants to end pre-existing coverage." Since it's going to happen anyway then you might as well do the right thing and stick with supporting it.
Notice Barr did not say the law should remain as is only that removing it completely at this time is not the best course of action. And he is right.
Barr doesn't have a say in the matter since it isn't the federal government's case. It was filed by individual state Attorney Generals, and their suit is that the law is unconstitutional in its entirety. The federal government is supporting them, but I guess Barr wants to say now that Trump supports some parts of the suit but not others. That's just going to make it worse.