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“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”: GOP Will Never Stop Coming For Obamacare
Obamacare turned 5 on Monday, a birthday achieved despite sustained and repeated efforts to smother the law in its cradle. The law has taken some hits, including a 2012 Supreme Court decision that...
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“A Big Split In The Republican Party”: Here Comes The Big Intra-GOP Fight...
It’s been obvious for a while that congressional Republicans will be placed in a difficult position if SCOTUS strikes down subsidies for health insurance purchases under the Affordable Care Act in...
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“Shocking Sloppiness Won’t Doom The Health Reforms”: Republican Politicians...
How many politicians, aides, lobbyists, lawyers, insurance moguls, professional groups, and interns — both the political and medical kind — agonized over the details in the Affordable Care Act? The...
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“The Political Consequences?: Will Republicans Suffer Politically If The...
Next month, the Supreme Court might rule in King v. Burwell that the Affordable Care Act does not make subsidies available on insurance exchanges established by the federal government. In a rational...
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“GOP Bad Faith Legal Mischief”: Democrats Have Every Reason To Save...
Sometime this month, possibly as early as Monday morning, the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in King v. Burwell. If the Court ignores both the text and purpose of the Affordable Care Act, and...
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“Watch What You Pray For, You May Get It”: Republicans Have Boxed Themselves...
There’s an adage that perfectly captures the Republicans’ conundrum on Obamacare: Watch what you pray for; you may get it. Having spent the past five years viciously battling the Affordable Care Act,...
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“In A Terrible Predicament”: A Victory For Obamacare’s Challengers Will Be A...
Once the conservative legal strategy that gave rise to King v. Burwell got off the ground, Republicans in Congress probably had no choice but to become cheerleaders for, or active participants in, the...
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“Hooray For Obamacare”: The Great Conservative Nightmare Has Come True, And...
Was I on the edge of my seat, waiting for the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare subsidies? No — I was pacing the room, too nervous to sit, worried that the court would use one sloppily worded...
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“Conservatives Lost Outright”: John Roberts, Liberal Hero; How The Chief...
Since ObamaCare passed in 2010, Republicans have been searching desperately for a way to destroy the law through legal trickery (or as they call it, “judicial activism”), since they don’t have the...
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“Antonin Scalia Defeated — By Antonin Scalia”: He Had His Own Previous...
Justice Antonin Scalia did not simply lose today’s key ruling on the federal health insurance subsidies for the Affordable Care Act — he had his own previous arguments turned against him. The majority...
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“John Roberts To America; I’m In Charge Here”: A Blunt Message To Politicians...
When, just over two years ago, right-wing superlawyer Michael Carvin filed his first lawsuit seeking to deny Affordable Care Act tax credits to millions of individuals in states with federally operated...
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“Why Scalia Should Resign”: It Must Make Him Wonder If He Wishes To Be Part...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia should resign. That’s the thought I had while reading his acid dissents in the two headline-grabbing Supreme Court cases last week, one affirming the IRS’s...
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“The Obamacare Resistance Regroups”: Delving Even Deeper Into Denial
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the federal income tax, was ratified in 1913. Still, every once in a while, the news will report the arrest of some right-wing kook who has failed to...
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