They seemed like paranoia, the editorials and op-ed pieces that predicted Donald Trump would refuse to leave, ours as well, but his every move since Election Day has borne out the predictions. Even so, disbelief caused some to reassure "He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave”.

There's no sign of that. “If you count the legal votes, I easily win,” Mr. Trump said from the White House briefing room two days after the
Twelve days after election, with Twitter annotating almost all his tweets

election. "If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us, if you count the votes that came in late”. The nation cringed and most television networks cut away, but Trump has continued ever since.

Some 20,000 came to Washington D.C. for the Trump March on November 14th.

Campaign lawyers have filed over 30 lawsuits over alleged irregularities in states where even a win in court would not overcome wide vote margins. All save one lost (poll observers in Philadelphia were allowed to stand closer to poll workers) . "He knows he's lost" came anonymous voices from inside the White House, but as he runs short on options, Trump has gone to the new and astonishing extreme of trying to block state election boards from certifying election results while simultaneously inducing legislators to overturn their people's vote for Biden and hand their state's Electoral College vote to Trump.

In a seditious attempt to subvert the election, Trump invited the two most senior Republicans in the Michigan state legislature to the White House assuredly to try to persuade them to choose the Trump slate of electors rather than Biden's for their meeting on December 14th when they will vote. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied… Read More »

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments why the Affordable Care Act should be struck down in its entirety versus why it is too important not to continue undisturbed. If the justices decide the former, the consequences will be calamitous.

Almost all of the 23 million people and families — roughly 11 million who bought insurance on federal and state exchanges and 12 million


who obtained coverage from Medicaid expansion — would lose coverage under the Act, and in the midst of the most severe health crisis in a century.

Millions more have, owing to the pandemic's blow to the economy, lost jobs that provided employer-paid health insurance — three million so far estimates the Urban Institute and possibly millions more if the renewed spread of Covid-19 causes businesses to close this winter. Many of those Update: November 11: In something of a surprise, Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice John Roberts suggesting that it didn't seem necessary to strike down the entire act because parts are unconstitutional."I think it's hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act," Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law.
    
furloughed might qualify for Obamacare's subsidized insurance, but not if the Court takes away that opportunity.

Gone as well will be the prohibition against denying coverage for reason of a pre-existing condition, as well as its companion rule that insurers cannot cancel policies when someone becomes ill. The popular provision of family plans covering sons and daughters until age 26 — some two million young adults according to the government — would also end.

Consensus opinion has come to think that the Court would not go so far as to strike down the entire law. But what the justices are most likely to retain, rather than face the wrath of… Read More »