Dear @realDonaldTrump: Has anyone told you that your Department of Justice just told the Supreme Court that when you signed the Tax Reduction Act in 12/17 you *established* an "individual mandate"--"a straightforward command to maintain [minimum health insurance] coverage"?!
That the law you signed "must be read as creating a legal obligation" to maintain insurance that "law-abiding citizens must comply with"?
Now, you know full well that you did no such thing: Indeed, you often boast that you *eliminated* the "mandate" by zeroing out the tax.
Now, you know full well that you did no such thing: Indeed, you often boast that you *eliminated* the "mandate" by zeroing out the tax.
But your Solicitor General's entire case is predicated on the opposite proposition: that you and the GOP Congress created a mandate to maintain insurance!
No, seriously. He wrote that.
No, seriously. He wrote that.
In this instance, as @dorfonlaw and I explained, you're 100% right: Of course you did no such thing.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-840/143453/20200513142621080_No.%2019-840%20Amicus%20Professors%20Dorf%20and%20Lederman.pdf...
We just thought you oughta know that your DOJ is either (i) deliberately slandering you or ...
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-840/143453/20200513142621080_No.%2019-840%20Amicus%20Professors%20Dorf%20and%20Lederman.pdf...
We just thought you oughta know that your DOJ is either (i) deliberately slandering you or ...
... (ii) they didn't get the memo that you *eliminated* the mandate! You might want to give them a call to straighten them out.
#ACA
#ACA