Affordable Care Act Can Stay In Effect While Under Appeal, Judge Says
Source: NPR
The federal judge in Texas who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional earlier this month said that the law can remain in effect while under appeal.
U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor wrote in his ruling filed on Sunday that "many everyday Americans would otherwise face great uncertainty during the pendency of appeal."
But O'Connor still stands by his initial decision, he wrote, that a recent change in federal tax law that eliminated the penalty on uninsured people, in turn, invalidates the entire health care law, which is also referred to as Obamacare.
Before issuing the stay, O'Connor struck down the ACA on Dec. 14, siding with a group of 19 Republican attorneys general and a governor, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/31/681098715/the-affordable-care-act-can-stay-in-effect-while-under-appeal-judge-says
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circuit of your fellow Federalist Society assholes could rule, and then have it go to the U.S. Supreme Court to let a your Federalist Society perverts and other ill gotten assholes rule..........................
You know what asshole have you read this book:
Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted.......... by Ian Millhiser.
"Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, where Americans could be forced into camps because of their race, and where a woman could be sterilized against her will by state law. The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy. Nor is the modern Court a vast improvement, with its incursions on voting rights and its willingness to place elections for sale.
In this powerful indictment of a venerated institution, Ian Millhiser tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of the everyday people who have suffered the most from it. America ratified three constitutional amendments to provide equal rights to freed slaves, but the justices spent thirty years largely dismantling these amendments. Then they spent the next forty years rewriting them into a shield for the wealthy and the powerful. In the Warren era and the few years following it, progressive justices restored the Constitution's promises of equality, free speech, and fair justice for the accused. But, Millhiser contends, that was an historic accident. Indeed, if it weren't for several unpredictable events, Brown v. Board of Education could have gone the other way.
In Injustices, Millhiser argues that the Supreme Court has seized power for itself that rightfully belongs to the people's elected representatives, and has bent the arc of American history away from justice."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22715946-injustices
He is more qualified than you sitting on the bench...................by far
https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/millhiser-ian/bio/
"Judicial activism". 
The GOP is forever railing against left-leaning "activist judges", and how unconstitutional they are. But, then we return to the simple principal the GOP lives by: It's OK if you're a republican. 
