Texas Democrats say state must take action if Obamacare struck down
Federal appeals court judges seemed skeptical of the law's constitutionality during oral arguments in the case last week.
"If we don't get relief from the courts, we do find ourselves in a crisis situation that does merit an emergency session," state Rep.
Gov.
The fate of the 2010 law, known as Obamacare, which covers about 1 million Texans and millions more across the country, remains uncertain. The lawsuit to overturn it, which was filed in
State Sen.
Democratic
In response to the event, Paxton said in a statement, "There is only one pre-existing condition at issue in our case: the cancer of federal overreach that is killing our
Paxton, who leads the coalition of states taking on the law, has centered his arguments against it around President
A federal judge in
The federal appeals court has no deadline to make a decision. The losing side will be able to appeal to the
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