-- Democrats seeking to save Obamacare from oblivion were asked by a federal appeals court to explain why they should be allowed to defend the national health-care plan in court if the Trump administration won’t.
But the Fifth Circuit panel reviewing the case -- whose three judges haven’t been identified yet -- is already signaling skepticism by asking the parties to explain within seven days, in a 15-page filing, why they have standing and whether they were too slow to intervene in the case. One law professor, Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan, said in a tweet that the notice from the court was an"ominous sign."
“Presumably, the courts will allow the House to do so again,” said professor Charles Silver, a specialist in health-care law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
Most red state republicans have preexisting conditions. That’s the only bright spot for me is knowing they’re going to hurt themselves more than anyone else.