Obamacare working as written. Chuck thinks he can int in judicial rulings now.
Via Daily Mail:
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer on Sunday pledged that his party will fight ‘tooth and nail’ against a Texas judge’s ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional.
‘It’s an awful, awful ruling. We’re going to fight this, tooth and nail. And the first thing we’re going to do, when we get back there in the Senate, is urge – put a vote on the floor urging an intervention in the case,’ Schumer said on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’
‘If a majority of the House and a majority of the Senate say that this case should be overturned, it’ll have a tremendous effect on the appeal,’ he added.
U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor ruled on Friday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because of the law’s individual mandate, but lawmakers and legal experts from both parties have said they expect the ruling will be overturned.
That could take some time, however, and it may not be resolved before the 2020 election, which could make it a major issue in the president campaign.
Schumer and Democrats sought to blame Republicans for the ruling.
The GOP will face dire consequences for it, Schumer warned.
‘It’s an awful, awful decision. And it puts a lot of our Republicans in a box. Because they sort of were, once – you know, two-faced. On the one hand, they said they want to preserve pre-existing conditions and preserve health care. On the other hand, Donald Trump and a large number of Republicans brought this court suit. So there are going to be a good number of Republicans who are going to really have to make a decision whether to join us in this intervention or face very severe consequences,’ Schumer said.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin echoed Schumer’s warning in his Sunday morning television appearance.
He reminded Republicans that Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm, in part, because of health care.
‘I think the judge, the Republican attorneys general who brought this lawsuit, didn’t do the Republican Party any favor. The largest issue in the last election, November 6 election, that moved 40 seats from the Republican column to the Democratic column in the House, the biggest single issue was the Affordable Care Act and whether it would cover people with pre-existing conditions,’ Durbin said on ABC’s ‘This Week.’