Me, for one. As an independent contractor I rely on the ACA to let me remotely afford healthcare in America. But unless I’m misunderstanding, Trump’s using the DOJ to just recommend this to the deeply divided Congress. Sounds like it’s a test case: “vote for lots of Republicans if you want this to happen specifically.”
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This is too good not to share.
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“…stop with this nonsense and take a vote on who wants to see the president fired. Get senators on the record. Practice on Barr if you want. Our political system could once rely upon shame to keep misbehavior in check, to a degree. But the Trumps and Barrs of this new age have an immunity to this emotion. They have set us along a path towards an utterly corrupt and unaccountable leadership. We’ll stay there as long as public servants in the House and Senate limit their demands for impeachment to tweets and press releases, and we citizens remain content to be entertained by our leaders dunking on authoritarians in a hearing.” -Jamil Smith, RollingStone
Getting tired of empty meaningless Tweeting myself. Dems need to fucking get on the offensive and stop f’ng around.
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I don’t think so, this is in front of the courts. The argument is that the law is unconstitutional. If Clarence Thomas wakes up in time to vote there is a good chance it will be struck down and simply cease to be the law immediately.
I imagine that existing contracts won’t be affected, but it feels like the result will be chaos.
Okay, so there is still the senate and the governor to get through before this actually heads to the supreme court so that John Roberts can personally decide the issue.
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Ah, gotcha, you’re right – this is to a Federal appeals court, intending to push this to the Supreme Court.
Personally, I would think that no matter what side you lean to as a judge, the idea of striking down the nation’s healthcare law without anything to replace it would be obviously an incredibly bad idea, but then again, so is hiring a racist gameshow host to be President, so who knows, really.
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I guess there is a chance it doesn’t even go to the supreme court. Usually when people take the government to court to have a law declared unconstitutional the government is trying to argue that it is constitutional. If the government is on the side that it’s not constitutional then there may be no further appeals.
I agree that it would be reckless for the judges to strike it down, but I doubt the judges will consider that. In a way that’s justified (judges should be deciding law, not policy) but of course that’s all just a cover for politics because the qualification for being a high level judge in America is an ideological one, not a competence one.
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Dear Dems: More of this please. Keep fucking these chickens.
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How’s about less fucking theater and more subpoenas and jail time for trump’s stooges…
Time for TV staging is over.
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Maybe they can’t get past Nancy “he’s not worth it” Pelosi?
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Well, that’s a depressing read to wake up to.
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How surprising that a Trump-nominated appointee would act the way other Trump appointees have acted, say the Democrats who voted for him!
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But they thought all that working in the Bush Sr. white house was proof that he was respectable!
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This is something that has been driving me nuts for years. Trump should have been impeached within the first year over emoluments, and that’s being very generous about how long they’d need for impeachment proceedings.
(I know that the Republicans would never do that, but I maintain should is the right word)
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Poor Nancy can’t sleep at night.
Well, do something about that Nancy. Impeach? Stop work? Sidearm?
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I really hope that the long arm of history eventually removes the sheen of respectability that HWB’s presidency had. The more I read about presidential history, the more it’s pretty obvious that the Republican party’s run at the presidency has been one long unbroken string of criminal operations and rampant corruption running all the way back to Nixon.
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No love for Nancy, policy-wise, but for what she’s accomplished in her life, I somehow think that losing a single night of sleep doesn’t mean to her what it does to regular humans.
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Ha. That’d be the day.
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As I understand it, in order for “Contempt of Congress” to have any teeth, the legislative branch has to hand it off to the DOJ. I am suspecting that will not go very far. We have apparently entered an era where “the president can fire a prosecutor or stop an investigation if he does not agree with the charges.” (paraphrased) Any impeachment will be for show, the Senate will never vote to remove (Trump or Barr). We need to realize that the only thing that will save our country, our democracy, and in a very real sense, the world, is the ballot box in 2020.
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