The Trump White House is determined to shut down the government on Dec. 21, in an attempt to get funding for a border wall with Mexico. So what happens to federal services if the government closes for business?
During a shutdown, the US government “must discontinue a...
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Justice Alito cut the legs out of the latest attack on Obamacare — and didn’t even know he did it
Remember Burwell v. Hobby Lobby? Hobby Lobby is the single most significant court victory ever achieved by America’s religious right. Before Hobby Lobby, religious conservatives could not wield their faith to undercut the rights of other people. After Hobby Lobby conservative religious objections may be used to narrow the rights of third-parties.
Yet a passage in Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the Court in Hobby Lobby coul...
Amid swirling Trump scandals, Cummings backs rules change to allow indictment of a sitting president
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Democrat who takes over chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee next month, called Sunday for the overhaul of legal guidelines that currently protect presidents from criminal prosecution.
“I think we should always reconsider laws and regulations, and this is one we definitely should reconsider,” Cummings told CNN’s State of the Union.
The Maryland Democrat raised the prospect of a rules change against the back...
Susan Collins: Obamacare court decision ‘far too sweeping,’ law should be maintained
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, criticized a Texas federal court judge who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional for going too far in his ruling.
Top Dem: Obamacare ruling ‘once again puts Republicans in Washington on the spot’
Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that the individual mandate is illegal and therefore the entire law is unconstitutional. He did not issue an injunction.
Trump calls decision by federal judge to strike down Obamacare a ‘great ruling’
The president praised the judge's decision to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
Read Nancy Pelosi’s statement on the court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act was overturned Friday night (Dec. 14) by a federal judge in Texas, who declared it unconstitutional in light of recent changes to the US tax code.
While the decision is expected to move on to the US ...
Even conservatives are shocked at how wrong the latest anti-Obamacare ruling is
On Friday, a George W. Bush-appointed federal judge specifically chosen by Republican governors and attorneys general to decimate the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) did what he often does: he struck down a policy enacted by elected Democrats using spurious legal reasoning.
But while United States District Judge Reed O’Connor’s tortured argument that the whole of Obamacare is now unconstitutional since congressional Republicans removed its individual mandate ...
Federal judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional, Democrats immediately vow appeal
The president celebrated the judge's ruling late Friday.
BREAKING: Republican judge issues order striking down Obamacare
Last February, a bloc of 20 Republican governors and attorneys general brought a lawsuit seeking to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Then they ran into a problem. Some of these officials faced reelection races in 2018. Others sought higher office. And repealing Obamacare is unpopular.
One of these officials, Senator-elect Josh Hawley (R-MO) even ran an ad where he lied to his state’s voters and claimed that he supports “forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existin...