{"id":3716,"date":"2020-10-29T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2020-10-29T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:30:28","slug":"amy-coney-barretts-opposition-to-obamacare-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3716","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s opposition to Obamacare, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett<\/a> is a critic of Roberts\u2019s decisions upholding most of Obamacare. In a book review published in 2017, for example, Barrett denounced Roberts\u2019s opinions in both NFIB <\/em>and King<\/em><\/a>, claiming the chief justice \u201cpushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute\u201d in the first decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Obamacare is struck down, roughly 20 million Americans will lose health coverage<\/a> \u2014 a likely conservative estimate, as it does not count many people who have lost their employer-provided health insurance during the Covid-19<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions over Obamacare have taken a starring role in Barrett\u2019s confirmation hearing. Democratic senators have repeatedly brought up Barrett\u2019s objections to the NFIB<\/em> and King<\/em> decisions and frequently referred to California v. Texas<\/em>, a third case attacking Obamacare<\/a> that the Supreme Court will hear in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrett didn\u2019t deny criticizing the NFIB<\/em> and King<\/em> opinions, but suggested that perhaps she didn\u2019t engage in particularly rigorous analysis when she attacked those two decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asked Barrett about a 2015 NPR interview in which the future judge claimed the dissenting justices had the \u201cbetter of the legal argument<\/a>\u201d in King<\/em>, Barrett said she was merely a law professor when she made that statement. \u201cA professor professes and can opine<\/a>,\u201d Barrett claimed, adding that she did not go through the \u201cjudicial decision-making process\u201d when she determined that King<\/em> was wrongly decided.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Barrett\u2019s record..suggests she is a long-term threat to the viability of the ACA \u2014 even though the Court may very well still reject the unusually shaky legal arguments in Texas<\/em>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21514900\/amy-coney-barrett-obamacare-supreme-court-california-texas-nfib-king-burwell-aca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is a critic of Roberts\u2019s decisions upholding most of Obamacare. In a book review published in 2017, for example, Barrett denounced Roberts\u2019s opinions in both NFIB and King, claiming the chief justice \u201cpushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute\u201d in the first decision.<\/p>\n

If Obamacare is struck down, roughly 20 million Americans will lose health coverage \u2014 a likely conservative estimate, as it does not count many people who have lost their employer-provided health insurance during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Questions over Obamacare have taken a starring role in Barrett\u2019s confirmation hearing. Democratic senators have repeatedly brought up Barrett\u2019s objections to the NFIB and King decisions and frequently referred to California v. Texas, a third case attacking Obamacare that the Supreme Court will hear in November.<\/p>\n

Barrett didn\u2019t deny criticizing the NFIB and King opinions, but suggested that perhaps she didn\u2019t engage in particularly rigorous analysis when she attacked those two decisions.<\/p>\n

After Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asked Barrett about a 2015 NPR interview in which the future judge claimed the dissenting justices had the \u201cbetter of the legal argument\u201d in King, Barrett said she was merely a law professor when she made that statement. \u201cA professor professes and can opine,\u201d Barrett claimed, adding that she did not go through the \u201cjudicial decision-making process\u201d when she determined that King was wrongly decided.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Barrett\u2019s record..suggests she is a long-term threat to the viability of the ACA \u2014 even though the Court may very well still reject the unusually shaky legal arguments in Texas.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[76,1015,77,528],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aca","tag-amy-coney-barrett","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}