Trump was wrong about the law, Obamacare politics and his judges

[DonViejo]

Analysis: The former president promised that his Supreme Court picks would overturn the Affordable Care Act. He met the court's ruling with the deafening silence of defeat.

June 18, 2021, 4:30 AM EDT

By Jonathan Allen

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, the health insurance program that helped fuel the backlash tea party movement and ultimately his own candidacy.

If Trump couldn't get Congress to do away with the law — and he couldn't, even with Republicans in control of both chambers — he would choose Supreme Court justices who would declare Obamacare unconstitutional.

"If I win the presidency, my judicial appointments will do the right thing unlike Bush's appointee John Roberts on Obamacare," Trump tweeted in 2015, referring to the decision Roberts wrote that preserved the law's mandate for Americans to buy health insurance.

But two of the three jurists Trump picked for the court — Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — voted with Roberts as part of a 7-2 majority Thursday to deny standing to a group of conservative states that claimed the law harmed them. It was a major blow — perhaps a decisive one — against the political right's long fight against Obamacare and a sign of the limit of Trump's influence on the justices he appointed.

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[NNadir]

1. Well, there's a very good chance that his awful appointees will...

...nationalize women's uteruses

The damage done by this semester racist pig's appointees is not over.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Headline complete after first 3 words: Trump was wrong.

[Haggard Celine]

3. If Trump was ever right about anything, it was unintentional.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. True and thanks for chuckle.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. So much for being a stable genius.

[monkeyman1]

6. " MY ASS " , HE WAS BORN STUPID !

[toughtony]

7. He Was Wrong, Because He...

Lacks knowledge about Obamacare, politics, or his appointed judges. He is completely ignorant. He completely under estimated his appointed judges. Judges are not criminals or habitual liars who just skirt the law whenever it's convenient. Judges, whether you agree with them or not. With the exception of a very few knuckleheads, judges are honorable people. Trump couldn't accept the fact that the judges he appointed were not his employees. I noticed something, the my pillow guy comes off as an idiot. A lot so called billionaires really don't impress me as intelligent people. How do so many morons end up making so much money without breaking the law (like dealing drugs).