Trump Cancels Alabama Rally

President Donald Trump’s administration is appealing to the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act, asking justices to strike down the healthcare regulations.

Two federal courts have ruled that the act’s individual mandate, which required people who did not have health insurance to pay a fine, violated the U.S. Constitution. The mandate, the Trump administration is arguing, is not severable from the rest of the act, also known as the ACA, or Obamacare.

“The individual mandate cannot be severed from the remainder of the ACA,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote in a new court filing (pdf). “The entire ACA thus must fall with the individual mandate.”

The Department of Justice filed the legal brief in support of states that are seeking to have Obamacare entirely struck down.

The states include Texas, Florida, Kansas, South Dakota, and West Virginia.

California, Hawaii, Minnesota, and other states are seeking to have the act upheld.

David Adams

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