{"id":71685,"date":"2018-12-14T18:51:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T02:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=71685"},"modified":"2018-12-14T18:51:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T02:51:33","slug":"judge-reed-oconnor-rules-obamacare-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=71685","title":{"rendered":"Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth, TX&#8230;U.S. District Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor has ruled that the ACA or Obamacare is unconstitutional.  From the Decision&#8230;&#8221;The Court\u2019s analysis involves three separate inquiries and conclusions. First, the Court finds the Parties satisfy the applicable standing requirements. Second, the Court finds the Individual Mandate can no longer be fairly read as an exercise of Congress\u2019s Tax Power and is still impermissible under the Interstate Commerce Clause\u2014meaning the Individual Mandate is unconstitutional. Third, the Court finds the Individual Mandate is essential to and inseverable from the remainder of the ACA.&#8221;  The link to the full decision is below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/211-texas-order-granting-plaintiffs-partial-summary-judgment.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/acadecision.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"757\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/acadecision.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/acadecision-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/acadecision-570x674.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth, TX&#8230;U.S. District Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor has ruled that the ACA or Obamacare is unconstitutional. From the Decision&#8230;&#8221;The Court\u2019s analysis involves three separate inquiries and conclusions. First, the Court finds the Parties satisfy the applicable standing requirements. Second, the Court finds the Individual Mandate can no longer be fairly read as an exercise of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/acadecision.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}