Meet the Texas lawyer arguing the Obamacare lawsuit while elected officials duck & cover
WASHINGTON -- Republicans who’ve spent nearly a decade trying to dilute and abolish Obamacare have a promising vehicle to finally do so— a legal challenge led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and GOP officials from 19 other states.
Yet the public face of that politically perilous effort won’t be Paxton or any of the other elected officeholders named on the suit.
Instead, the man making their arguments at a U. S. District Court in Fort Worth this week was Robert Henneke — a 41-year-old Texas attorney who’s taken the lead on a number of his party’s legal battles from a conservative think tank in Austin.
Republicans in Washington tried and failed to repeal Obamacare multiple times last year. They’re now in the middle of heated Supreme Court confirmation, in which they’ve vowed their nominee Brett Kavanaugh won’t use courts as a means to advance their policy agenda.
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