Trump Regime SCOTUS Brief: Kill Obamacare!

The Lord of the Ramp and his malignant Party of Life afflict- the- afflicted party are trying to kill the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) (again), now in the midst of a resurgent pandemic:

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, telling the court that “the entire ACA must fall.” The administration’s argument comes as hundreds of thousands of Americans have turned to the government program for health care as they’ve lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) responded to the brief by saying there is “no moral excuse for the Trump Administration’s disastrous efforts to take away Americans’ health care." Dismantling the ACA would leave more than 23 million people without healthcare plans, according to a recent analysis by the liberal-leaning think tank Center for American Progress.

“President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” Pelosi, who on Wednesday filed a bill to expand the ACA, said in a statement.

The administration’s brief was filed in support of a challenge to the ACA by a coalition of Republican attorneys general, following through on Trump’s pledge last month to overturn President Obama’s landmark healthcare legislation.

The Trump brief is about what you'd expect -- pure chewy, malicious wingnut.  But don't just take our word for it:

Here’s the DOJ plea just filed in SCOTUS urging immediate invalidation of the entire ACA. It’s legally crazy, morally indefensible, and politically bizarre. In other words, pure Trumpian BS.https://t.co/UcJsvwPLnm

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 26, 2020

  

While failing in his response to the pandemic, the Trump is fighting to take away people's health insurance. When he says there are no cases of COVID-19 if you don't test for the virus, it's not a figure of speech. It's his Supreme Court brief. https://t.co/wcBYXKdsFa

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 26, 2020

  

The Trump administration just filed a brief with the Supreme Court calling for the ACA to be overturned. The president has not proposed a replacement plan. Trying to repeal the ACA, along with the response to COVID-19, will define President Trump on health care in the election.

— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) June 26, 2020

 

The Supreme Court won't hear the case challenging the existence of the health law until next term (probably before the election but there's no date yet) Here's what the case is about: https://t.co/t2lI4ObfvG 2/

— julie rovner (@jrovner) June 26, 2020

 
 
Regardless of when and however the Court eventually decides, this will be the main issue for the November election, much as it was in 2018.  The lines have been drawn and this issue alone is enough to make clear which party is trying to protect the general health and welfare of our country, and which one is not.