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Trump Justice Department goes ahead in supporting case to throw out Obamacare….

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Some Republican lawmakers are NOT happy with this….

Obamacare and its benefits have become popular with Americans across the board….

There Trump admin supporting a case that could get rid of the ENTIRE healthcare plan would unsettle the nations ENTIRE healthcare coverage industry…

THAT is something Republican lawmakers do NOT want to have on their backs for next years elections…(Republicans have NO plan ‘B’ …)

Donald Trump’s Justice lawyers appear to not give a shit….

The Trump administration offered its first full argument Wednesday for its reversal on the Affordable Care Act, arguing in new court filings that the entire law “should not be allowed to remain in effect.”

The government argues in the filings that the so-called “individual mandate” requiring Americans to have coverage is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law should therefore also be struck down, even if the government “might support some individual provisions as a policy matter.”
Read: Justice Department filing saying Obamacare must be struck down
The landmark legislation provides health care coverageto millions of Americans.
In the filing, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hunt acknowledged that the administration had previously argued that parts of the law could remain in effect even if the individual mandate were struck down, but he said, the administration had come to believe it could no longer defend that position. He suggested that rewriting the statute by “picking and choosing which provisions to invalidate” would interfere with the role of Congress and the “proper course” for the courts would be to strike down the law in its entirety.
The brief was filed with the conservative-leaning 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear arguments in July and possibly tee up a Supreme Court case next term that could finally decide the fate of the law and render a decision during the heart of the presidential election.
If the law is struck down, it would be a major victory for President Donald Trump, who has worked his entire presidency to wipe away a signature legislative achievement of the Obama administration.
Last month, the President tweeted that Republicans were developing a “really great” health care plan with “far lower premiums” than Obamacare and that a vote will be taken “right after” the election.
The administration’s reversal came after District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in favor of several Republican state attorneys general and governors in December and held that the entire law must fall. O’Connor, who sits on the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, put his ruling on hold pending appeal.
The new position has drawn criticism from supporters of the law as well as some opponents.
“The Department of Justice disregarded its own long-standing norms and practices in refusing to defend a readily defensible federal law and failing to urge the court to dismiss this case in the first place,” said Jonathan H. Adler, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law who is no fan of the health care law but has questioned the current legal challenge, on Wednesday…..

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  1. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sitting in New Orleans, covers Texas, Louisiana & Mississippi;

    It used to also cover Alabama, Florida & Georgia, but those were split off to form the 11th Circuit, sitting in Atlanta, which has in the past been considered more conservative.

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