Although Barrett indicated support for previous Obamacare challenges, the case now before the court is quite different & a decision to strike the entire law down would be a surprising outcome based on similar cases the court has had recently
Paul Clement, the conservative lawyer who asked the court to strike down Obamacare the first time around, said last week the challengers face “a very uphill battle” to achieve that outcome. Other legal experts agree
And even if Barrett did vote to strike Obamacare down it is unlikely there will be a majority on the court to do that based on recent outcomes in similar types of cases in which an invalid part of a law is struck down but the rest of it left in place
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