A lot of big legal news has happened in the past 72 hours. Here are the highlights from our @BuzzFeedNews coverage —>
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DOJ is arguing the ACA’s individual mandate is now unconstitutional — and that the law’s other key parts (including the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions) should be struck down as a result. I wrote:https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/obamacare-trump-aca-individual-mandate-preexisting-condition?utm_term=.rp9Xm6Xb0 …
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On Friday, Mueller revealed a new indictment.
@VeraMBergen and I wrote about the obstruction and conspiracy charges that Manafort and Kilimnik (formerly known as “Person A” in the papers) face for alleged witness-tampering:https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/mueller-new-charges-manafort-kilimnik?utm_term=.stbbMobLW …Show this thread -
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@ZoeTillman had the follow-up: Manafort, in a filing over the conditions of his release pending trial, called the witness-tampering claims “dubious” and an effort to “poison” the jury pool:https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/paul-manafort-accuses-muellers-office-of-trying-to-poison?utm_term=.fh5maxmVv …Show this thread -
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@dominicholden continued with his coverage of the ins and outs of the Trump-Sessions relationship with a look at how Trump’s comments that he supports a marijuana bill in Congress are “a real F-you” to Sessions.https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/trump-sessions-pot-bill?utm_term=.mv64KN42M …Show this thread -
And finally, late last night, DOJ filed a brief in a case challenging DACA — this lawsuit is from opponents of DACA — in which, I wrote, the department laid out a path to force DACA to the Supreme Court as soon as this summer.https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/the-justice-department-laid-out-the-path-to-force-a-daca?utm_term=.etKgo7g95#.tqP7JL7Vx …
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Ooops: That actually was our coverage from the past 48 hours — not 72 hours, as I initially wrote.
In short, a helluva lot happened on Thursday and Friday, on a lot of different fronts, and I couldn’t be working with a more amazing group of people to cover it all.
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