President Donald Trump’s administration petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a late night filing on the worst day of the coronavirus pandemic the nation has seen so far.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco, in a filing late on Thursday, argued for the administration that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became invalid after the previous, Republican-led Congress axed parts of it. The Trump administration’s filing came the same day the United States set a new record for a one-day increase in cases of the fatal and highly contagious coronavirus. The disease has killed thousands of Americans and forced millions to lose their jobs, including any employer-based health benefits they may have had.
Democrats, who had asked the top court separately to declare that ACA did not violate the U.S. Constitution and have proposed to shore up the law’s provisions, blasted the move as cruel and immoral, particularly amid the outbreak…