On Obamacare, Trump Restores the Rule of LawPowerline, Oct 13, 2017, John Hinderaker
The Obama administration carried out the most sustained attack on the rule of law in our nation’s history. One important aspect of that assault was Obamacare, an unworkable statute that the Democrats passed without reading, relying on administrative agencies and the courts to rewrite the law, unconstitutionally. The Supreme Court lent a hand to this project in King v. Burwell by holding that “established by the state” can be interpreted to mean “not established by the state.”
Last night, President Trump issued an order ending subsidy payments to insurance companies under Obamacare, for which Congress has not appropriated money. The Obama administration had made those payments to insurance companies, notwithstanding the lack of any legal basis for doing so. Last May, in U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that it was unconstitutional for the executive branch to make these insurer subsidy payments without Congressional authorization. She wrote:
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