Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Republican Supreme Court Won't Decide Obamacare Case Until After Election


The Republican Supreme Court:  helping Republicans win elections since 2000:
The Supreme Court quietly denied a motion on Tuesday that sought to hustle along a case asking the courts to repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety.
The denial keeps the case alive while almost certainly delaying any reckoning on it until after the 2020 election. Though the Court may still hear the case, it’s unlikely to decide the case until 2021 at the earliest.
In practical terms, that’s a double victory for Republicans: It leaves open the possibility that Obamacare will be killed by a judicial decree, but spares Republican candidates from the media spotlight that would come from a high-profile Supreme Court fight involving a challenge to the Affordable Care Act(our emphasis)
This must not stop Democrats from making health care, and specifically the Republican aim to kill the Affordable Care Act and take health insurance away from millions of Americans, a major issue in the 2020 election.  It's simply another example of Republican power politics treachery and that party's adherence to the principle of "afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable."  Don't spare them "the media spotlight;"  focus it on them relentlessly.

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