Brett Kavanaugh in Trump Research Book

On Health Care: 2011: ObamaCare mandate is essentially a tax

2011: Then-Judge Kavanaugh Wrote A Dissent Arguing Against The Affordable Care Act's Individual Mandate: "In a 2011 case, Seven-Sky v. Holder, the appeals court upheld the individual mandate to buy health insurance, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act. Kavanaugh wrote a dissent, saying the mandate was essentially a tax and thus outside the court's jurisdiction. This argument later became central when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the ACA." [NBC News, 7/10/18]

An op-ed by JD Vance in the Wall Street Journal: "Judge Kavanaugh has come under fire in some quarters of the right for challenges against ObamaCare--in which he aimed to rule narrowly and fairly rather than politically. In one, he dissented from an opinion that upheld the individual mandate. He observed that the individual mandate 'is unprecedented in American history' and cast doubt on its validity under either the Commerce or Taxing clause. " [Wall Street Journal, 7/2/18]

Source: Wall Street Journal in 2024 Trump Research Book Aug 2, 2024

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