NOT MY INFO, but if I told you who wrote this you would know the name.
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'On the Obamacare unconstitutionality: I get the hestiation re: Roberts, but apparently this judge applied Roberts to Roberts, saying 1) this is a tax, just as Roberts said; 2) it was legislatively TIED to the mandate; c) Congress repealed the mandate, therefore the tax itself is kaput. I don’t see how Roberts, even in his squirmy way, can get around this.
On the recent PP decision: This is NOT, as both liberals and conservatives have seen it, a verdict on “defunding PP.” There are multiple cases like this out there in the Circuit courts. The Sixth Circuit (including Arkansas) has endorsed an Arkansas version of defunding PP. So the USSC remanded this to the (I think, Fifth) to say, you guys sort out exactly what the issues are. There was far more in this than defunding PP. This is in larger part about what states must, and can refuse to, pay out of Medicaid. That’s why the confusion. The legalese in the administrative work is quite detailed, down to what type of procedures must/can be used prior to an abortion. All this has to be sorted out before it gets to the USSC. Kavanaugh and Roberts were not wrong on this.
On Trump: Mulvaney a good choice for CoS, but we’ll miss him in the budget works. He’s a Trumper and he’s organized-—the key trait you need in a CoS. Moreover, he doesn’t have a habit of running his mouth like Newt.
Conversation with Richard Baris. Realize, Rich has “his” sources like I have my (one or two), so take this or leave it. He admits when it’s “rumor”:
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