Four cities file suit against Trump's plan to 'let Obamacare implode'
Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus argued in a lawsuit filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland that President Donald Trump’s plan to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a violation of the US Constitution. Congressional Republicans attempted and failed to repeal the ACA several times last year. Shortly after, [...]
Judge Kavanaugh and the Public’s Health: Existing & Emerging Challenges
President Donald Trump’s recent nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court from a list of potential candidates has ignited immediate support and criticism from conservatives and liberals respectively. An undergrad and law alum at Yale University, Judge Kavanaugh clerked for the departing Justice Anthony Kennedy, practiced law privately [...]
The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy this week represents the end of an era and the beginning of the entrenchment of a more conservative Supreme Court, probably for years to come. That much seems clear. But there are actually many more sides to Justice Kennedy’s retirement than that simple statement implies. Justice Kennedy was nominated [...]
Democratic Attorneys General move to intervene in GOP case against Obamacare
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra , along with the attorneys general of 14 other states and the District of Columbia, filed a motion Monday to intervene and defend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) against a challenge...
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: President Trump announced new tariffs Thursday in two separate proclamations, one for imports of steel and one for aluminum . The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday...
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals questions settlement on Obamacare lawsuit
A three-judge panel for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order on Monday that stalls the proposed settlement of a lawsuit files by the House of Representatives during the Obama administration over...
A coalition of 20 states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday alleging that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is...
US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. At the signing ceremony, Trump touted what he sees...
Federal court denies motion for preliminary injunction to continue Obamacare subsidies
The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday denied a motion for preliminary injunction to require the Trump administration to continue to pay insurance subsidies necessary for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that makes it easier for people to buy more forms of health insurance at potentially cheaper costs. The order identified three main areas of priority: allowing small business access...
