Constitutional Accountability Center: Donald Verrilli Once Again Will Defend Obamacare at the US Supreme Court
More than eight years after successfully defending the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, former Obama administration solicitor general
Verrilli, a partner in
House general counsel
The justices have enlarged argument time from the usual 60 minutes to 80 minutes, with 40 minutes for each side. Acting
As in 2012, when the justices first confronted a challenge to the Obama administration's signature legislative achievement, the stakes are high. An estimated 23 million people rely on the law for health insurance, and the law has become a potential lifeline for workers who lost their insurance along with their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The
The high court cases stem from a suit by
The Trump administration
The
The justices have agreed to decide: whether zeroing out the penalty in the minimum coverage provision made it unconstitutional; if it is unconstitutional, is the provision severable from the rest of the act; whether the challenger states and individuals have standing to sue, and whether the district court was correct to order nationwide relief.
The
Letter argued for the House in May in the
Letter and his staff also are litigating the refusal of former White House Counsel
In a
If the justices strike down the Affordable Care Act, health experts say, not only will millions lose their health insurance but also ending would be coverage for pre-existing conditions and for young persons up to age 26 on their parents' plan, subsidies for low-income people, the Medicaid expansion in many states and a host of other changes made by the law.
More than 40 amicus briefs have been filed in the combined cases by a broad swath of health, insurance, civil rights, and consumer groups, states and legal, medical and ethics scholars.
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