Trump DOJ asks appeals court to strike down all of Obamacare
by Joseph Lawler
March 25, 2019 09:54 PM The Trump Justice Department told a federal appeals court Monday night that it favors striking down Obamacare in its entirety.
The statement, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, is a departure from the administration's previous stance, which was that only the law's rules on protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be struck down.
A district court had ruled in December that Obamacare was unconstitutional on the grounds that, without the individual mandate requiring people to buy healthcare insurance or face a fine, the rest of the law should fall. Republicans had zeroed out the mandate in the 2017 tax law.
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