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Swordsmyth
06-27-2019, 09:36 PM
A federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned whether more than a dozen Democratic states and the U.S. House of Representatives have the right to appeal a lower court decision that struck down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, throwing the law’s future into question.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which is scheduled to begin hearing oral arguments on the constitutionality of the law on July 9, said it needed more information as to whether the House and Democratic states had standing to intervene in the lawsuit and whether their interventions were timely. Some legal experts said the request did not bode well for the future of former president Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement.

“This order suggests that the Fifth Circuit panel may be hostile to the ACA and inclined to support the red states,” Nicholas Bagley, a University of Michigan law professor, wrote on Twitter. “The odds that the Fifth Circuit does something nasty to the health reform law have gone up.”

Eleven of the 16 active judges on the 5th Circuit are Republican appointees, including five named to the bench by President Trump. The court has not yet announced which three judges will hear the ACA case.

More at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/appellate-court-raises-potential-new-threat-to-aca/ar-AADt1Z4