Last year, a group of states led by Texas began this fresh attack. Their opening was a 2017 revision to the law that set the penalty for defying the “individual mandate” at zero. This arguably unmoored the ACA from its constitutional foundations, as laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012. In that ruling, the penalty for defying the mandate to obtain insurance was deemed to be a lawful exercise of Congress’s taxing power; now that the tax is zero, this argument no longer applies, according to the new challenge, so the mandate becomes impermissible under the Constitution’s commerce clause. A federal judge embraced this approach, and ruled the law invalid. The case, Texas v. U.S., is being appealed.The answer is that the issue is moot, there is no penalty.
Since there is no longer a mandate to make impermissible the only thing left is to teach Texas lawyers how to read.
How do Texas legislatures recommend shooting our children and suing ghosts? WTF happened to Texas? Maybe NRA nuts are natural idiots?
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