Republican states get hard lesson about getting what they wish for on Obamacare
Now that the composition of the panel of judges deciding whether the Affordable Care Act should be wholly struck down has been revealed to have two extremist conservatives likely to shut down the ACA on a partisan whim, the Republican state attorneys general who brought the suit are having a bit of a panic.
The states have asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to delay oral arguments that were set to happen on July 9. (Note: Since this story was published, the court rejected the request for a long delay, giving states just an additional working day to respond. The Modern Healthcare story linked to above was edited to include that, and this story has been edited to reflect those changes as well.) They need more time, they wrote, to respond to a request issued by the court last week for briefs expanding on the standing of the members of Congress and Democratic states to defend the law.
What a difference an election focused on health care, like 2018’s, can make. Those responses were due Wednesday, July 3, and now the Republicans are saying that can't meet the deadline. "These important and potentially dispositive questions merit a thorough response that represents the cohesive views of all plaintiff-appellee states and their respective attorneys general. As of today, it appears unlikely that any such response will be completed by the court's July 3 deadline," the lead counsel for the Republican states told the court.
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their constituents are going to find out that they have a new option to healthcare and healthcare insurance. They're gonna die.
But then again, donthecon does have the best healthcare insurance plan stuffed somewhere up his ass that he's going to show us in two weeks or maybe three or maybe 6.
meanwhile, they'll believe him..................................
"they'll believe him." 
