Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Looks like Judge White served up some hot and spicy disapproval of ObamaCare and its defenders.

ANOTHER COURT DECISION AGAINST SUBSIDIES FOR THE FEDERAL OBAMACARE EXCHANGE - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o

The bell might be tolling for ObamaCare, as another federal judge rolls into what is broadly referred to as the “Halbig” controversy, after the first court decision against subsidies for federal exchange customers. A second decision in a different circuit court ruled the opposite way. Now the tie has been broken by a federal judge ruling in favor of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt against those subsidies.

It will all most likely be settled at the Supreme Court. The significance of today’s ruling might be that it’s now much harder to keep the case away from the Supremes, and they’ll have two decisions against ObamaCare to consider. The Pruitt case still has to pass through one more layer of federal review, and the Obama-packed D.C. Circuit Court might kill the Halbig decision of a three-judge panel, with a review from the full bench. Maybe these two anti-ObamaCare rulings can still be tackled before they make it to SCOTUS, but the odds are shifting against it. There’s actually one more related court challenge creeping toward Washington, Indiana vs. IRS, which recently survived a dismissal challenge from the Internal Revenue Service.