Top Republican Senator Explains Why The Supreme Court Challenge To Obamacare Is Garbage

Top Republican Senator Explains Why The Supreme Court Challenge To Obamacare Is Garbage
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Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) speaks during a hearing on health insurance exchanges on November 6, 2013 in the Dirksen Senate Office on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is one of six Republican senators who joined an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to gut one of the core provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Yet the central claim of that brief — and, indeed, of the entire lawsuit — was rejected during the debate over the law by none other than Sen. Orrin Hatch.

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