I'm okay with Trump's filing a brief with the Supreme Court to strike down the ACA...

[Drunken Irishman]

Why?

1) This won't be heard until their next term, which means it's likely not going to have a decision before election day.

2) There's no way this court strikes down the ACA. Okay, I shouldn't say no way - but it's very unlikely.

3) The Trump campaign just gave Team Biden a devastating ad to run over and over again: the President wants to repeal the ACA during a pandemic.

What won 2018 for the Democrats?

Healthcare.

Well, the threat of the Republicans repealing healthcare.

If Trump hadn't locked up his election defeat with his disastrous pandemic response, he just did tonight.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Good point...nt

[MaryMagdaline]

2. K&R

[LizBeth]

3. Why do you think it won't be heard until later? I have watched them get SC to get on rulings.

Is that a for sure?

[elleng]

6. Scheduling won't allow earlier hearing,

virtually certain won't be heard until next term, which doesn't begin until First Monday in October.

[More_Cowbell]

7. The Supreme Court is done hearing cases for this year

It usually hears arguments through April, though it heard some in May this year because of the COVID closure; it heard cases that had originally been scheduled for March and April.

It agreed in March to hear the ACA case in the next term, which starts in October.

[DrToast]

15. What do they do the rest of the year?

I knew they do this, but I never really thought it was strange until right now.

[Marcuse]

31. Hopefully she will rest and rejuvenate.

[DrToast]

34. Well deserved.

[Pacifist Patriot]

38. A lot of research, reading, writing, and thinking.

A lot goes on outside the courtroom between sessions.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Nice logical arguments (aside from #2),

but it doesn't make it emotionally easier for those of us whose lives (or whose children's lives) depend on the ACA.

We have been under attack over and over again since the day this passed. You are wrong, as to #2. There are no guarantees, and it has been picked nearly to death - and the central argument here is that it's nearly dead and can't survive without the parts that have been killed off.

So no, it's not OK that - with everything else going on in the world, that yet another attempt to kill my daughter has been launched.

[Bigredhunk]

21. THIS

I know HC is a good issue for Dems. But I'm not flippant or carefree about the ACA. Every time it has to try to survive another challenge I'm scared sh*tless. Do I think it'll be struck down? No. Do I want to take a 1% (whatever) chance that it's struck down just b/c the odds are on my side? No.

There are a lot of people benefiting from the law. I worry about them. Selfishly, I worry about me too. I finally have coverage (steady coverage since 2014). It's terrifying to think of going back to the pre-ACA years of not having any coverage/ER visits.

[demmiblue]

33. +1

[PatrickforO]

5. Let's not count our chickens just yet. Four months to go...

lots of days left.

That said, it WAS a stupid move for him to make.

[Cha]

8. I hope so.. they must be counting

on all the brainwashed chickens voting for Colonel Sanders with this move. Hopefully Reality Bites them Hard.

[True Blue American]

9. Joe Biden appealed to Trump to

Drop his suit against the ACA just this afternoon. Another vindictive move from the addle brained lunatic, Trump!

[Cha]

13. Good move by Joe Biden.. TY, TBA!

[True Blue American]

18. In his even, calm way

Joe is causing Trump to become more wierd!

Tonight Trump was on Hannity saying,” Biden will be your next President. I am just doing my job but some people do not like me!” Honestly.

I have not watched the whole clip but they say he rambles on incoherently!

[Cha]

26. BLOTUS is an IDIOT! he's NOT "doing his job".

[sunonmars]

22. Everyone has figured out, if you want to goad Trump to do something then do the opposite.

[Jspur]

10. My nickname for the Trump Adminstration is:

Evil never sleeps.

[smirkymonkey]

27. Very good nickname.

Very apt and scarily accurate.

[CousinIT]

11. Biden is already running on Trump defunding ACA during a pandemic.

He's mentioned it numerous times. GOOD for him. I think most Americans are going to care a lot about this issue.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Two days ago I mailed my reply to Biden's campaign

request to list the priorities thar Biden should run on and saving the ACA was #1 on my list. Glad to see his team is already on it!

It seems to me like tRump is actually trying to lose by taking this action now. Jared must have come up with this bright idea.

[True Blue American]

19. He is pushing for

Single Payer. That is what we need. The ACA hurt some middle aged people. Republicans have made it worse. They understand now it has to be fixed.

[BigmanPigman]

20. I think I wrote that it needed to be strengthened...

Sort of like a single payer system.

[True Blue American]

23. I am sure you did.

We need to repeat it because I know several in that age bracket who were hurt by the ACA. Companies used that threat to cut benefits. Others lost their jobs, can not afford the high cost of Insurance. That badly needs to be fixed. It made many vote for Trump with his perfect health care boast. Now, they expect Democrats to fix it.

[True Blue American]

24. :)

This is for Bigman pigman writing Biden.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. There's always a nefarious plan in the background with anything GOP.

I'll bet they submit a Trumpcare plan to Congress this summer and pump it up on media like it's the best thing since original sin.

Even though that could never even get through the House, he can say in the final weeks of his campaign he tried to rebuild healthcare but nasty Democrats wouldn't go along. He could also say his attempt to strike down ACA is part of that grand plan.

Any thoughts from wiser heads?........

[C Moon]

14. But I gotta say, he sure is grasping at straws now.

They aren't thinking ANYTHING through—just going with the throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach.

[Captain Zero]

17. I agree DI, use this as a club and beat Trump over the head with it the entire campaign.

Use it against the GOP too.
They have no solution in place. They have no replacement.
Something like that.
Lather rinse repeat.

[grantcart]

25. Agreed plus the pro Confederate anti ACA segment of the population

Maybe the last constituency we are likely to get.

Let Trump spend the next 4 months nailing those people down lol.

[Wanderlust988]

28. If it's struck down, Biden will sign a new law in the next week

So I'm not worried at all. I think Dems will control Congress and they will pass an updated ACA with a public option almost immediately.

[True Blue American]

30. Biden on Colbert

Colbert gives him all the time.

[Grins]

35. Ummmm... In a week?

That’s not possible. He’s not a King, we have a Congress that he would have to get through first.

And remember that Obama had Democrats controlling both the House (Pelosi) and the Senate (Reid) and he STILL had trouble getting it passed. (Trying to remember...a Senator from Nebraska, another from Louisiana, a Congressman from Michigan, more...?)

Far better and easier if the ACA is upheld by the court. More important is who will be Biden’s Solicitor General who will defend the Act before the Court, and that person needs to start getting ready damn soon.

[MFM008]

29. Roberts

Does not want his court
To be forever known
As the one to take away 20 plus million Americans healthcare during a once a century pandemic
To keep an insane clown happy.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[ancianita]

40. Exactly. And given that his court upheld the constitutionality of the ACA to begin with.

[SoonerPride]

32. Any day now trump and the GOP are gonna unveil that beautfiul health plan, you'll see!

Any day now.

[czarjak]

36. "Everyone will be covered"! Remember?

[area51]

37. Everyone will indeed be covered.

[Catch2.2]

39. The question is if

the Biden Campaign will take advantage of this like you suggested. At least we have the Lincoln Project who will probably make an ad about it.