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It just became harder for Trump to blow up Obamacare
Business Insider ^ | August 2, 2017 | Bob Bryan

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aca; obamacare; trumpobamacare
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To: Cboldt

Time to STOP this MADNESS where ONE lousy leftist judge can stop everything good!


21 posted on 08/02/2017 8:57:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Decision below ...

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

22 posted on 08/02/2017 8:58:41 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Ann Archy

The President should proceed and let the courts take him to court, the Supreme Court. Meanwhile the subsidies are curtailed


23 posted on 08/02/2017 9:00:42 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Cboldt

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.


24 posted on 08/02/2017 9:01:48 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: usconservative
Liberal judges should be sh** .... wait, hu**, no, tarred and feathered first, then hu** and sh**.

At the very least they could be "Loretta'd"
25 posted on 08/02/2017 9:02:16 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Rational Thought
-- This certainly closer resembles a Communist style government vs. a Democratic Republic. --

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.

26 posted on 08/02/2017 9:02:59 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

All Trump needs to Tweet is “Enforce it!”


27 posted on 08/02/2017 9:08:33 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Cboldt

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!


28 posted on 08/02/2017 9:14:51 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: usconservative

You forgot pissed on.


29 posted on 08/02/2017 9:17:14 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Cboldt

30 posted on 08/02/2017 9:17:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!)
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To: Cboldt

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.


31 posted on 08/02/2017 9:21:06 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Cboldt

Judging based on “outcomes” and not on the law is not judging, it’s legislating from the bench.


32 posted on 08/02/2017 9:22:05 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Adder
-- The courts do not have the power to compell the Congress to appropriate money ... --

ROTFL. The courts power is plenary. It's all in the rhetoric.

33 posted on 08/02/2017 9:23:01 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

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.


34 posted on 08/02/2017 9:35:39 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Cboldt

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...


35 posted on 08/02/2017 9:35:54 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: LS
-- Appeal it. --

LOL. The motion to intervene was filed (and granted) in the appellate court.

36 posted on 08/02/2017 9:38:49 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Then this “a federal court” can pay for this obamacare debacle out of their budget.


37 posted on 08/02/2017 9:46:16 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: hanamizu

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.


38 posted on 08/02/2017 9:52:32 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Cboldt
It's all wrapped up in the same case, now in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court below found the payments unconstitutional.

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.

39 posted on 08/02/2017 9:58:20 AM PDT by etcb
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To: etcb
-- Sometime it just depends on whose ox is being gored. --

Courts are outcome-driven institutions.

40 posted on 08/02/2017 10:10:08 AM PDT by Cboldt
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