Hot Air has the details: short version is, tomorrow the DC Circuit Court will rule whether or not the Obama administration actually has the authority to offer subsidies to people who signed up for Obamacare on the federal exchanges. The answer to that is… maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t, and the courts will let us know any day now. Needless to say, the following will happen if it turns out that all those people who thought that they were getting subsidies do not:
Allahpundit’s in Classic Allahpundit Worry Mode over the situation, and it’s fair to say that it could blow up in the GOP’s face if the subsidies go away and the Republicans refuse to authorize them. Then again, it’s equally fair to say that a President with an 41.6 average approval rating may not be the most reliable purveyor of the message Oh, boy, aren’t those people on the Other Side awful? The Democrats don’t really have an alternate plan if the American voting public disagrees.
Moe Lane
*Not least because I can’t imagine that there won’t be an injunction on the ruling until the Supreme Court can take a gander at it.
“I do not expect the DC Circuit to kill #obamacare tomorrow*.”
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Pessimist.
If federal courts cared about what law actually says, then nearly our entire federal government would currently be unconstitutional.
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Sure, the ACA is very clear on the matter. But so is the 10th Amendment, and I don’t recall that stopping the feds from doing whatever they wanted.
This is the court that Obama just packed, right? Yeah, it’s not striking anything down.