So, the ACA just got overturned by a fifth circuit judge in Texas. But it may not change anything for right now. Or it may. It’s unclear.

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Federal Judge in Texas Rules Entire Obama Healthcare Law is Unconstitutional

It appears that nobody knows exactly what this means for the ACA at this moment. The ruling will be appealed, so this lawsuit (started by Texas Attorney General and self-described Tea Partier Ken Paxton) will probably end up before the Supreme Court. The White House put out a statement saying that “Pending the appeals process, the law remains in place.” (Buttercup himself, of course, has put out nothing but wackadoodle gloaty tweets that betray no understanding of the legal issues involve.) But for right now, there’s this:

“It was not immediately clear what the legal path will be from here. Technically, O’Connor granted summary judgment to the lawsuit’s plaintiffs — the Texas attorney general, with support from 18 GOP counterparts and a governor. Because the judge did not grant an injunction, as the plaintiffs had asked for, “it’s unclear whether this is a final judgment, whether it’s appealable, whether it can be stayed,” said Timothy Jost, a health-law expert who is a professor emeritus at Washington and Lee University. Jost, an ACA proponent, predicted that a stay would lock in the law during appeals, saying that, otherwise, “it’s breathtaking what [O’Connor]’s doing here on a Friday night after the courts closed.”
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Yeah, it is kind of breathtaking, but at least now we’re used to it.