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Sonia Sotomayor Presses Attorney About Past Rulings In Case Challenging The Affordable Care Act
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4/23/2025
During the oral arguments for Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned an attorney about the past rulings made in the given case.
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the issue was so open and shut. Why do you think the Fifth Circuit didn't reach it? I saw that this
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was a huge part of the briefing before the Fifth Circuit. It was. It seems to me that
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it wasn't merely an assumption, it was a conclusion. In their whole reasoning, the
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conclusion was... Well, if I can defend the Court of Appeals for a moment, Justice Sotomayor. They
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did not need to reach that question because they concluded, number one, the task force members are
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principal officers. So there's no need to decide whether Congress vested the appointment authority
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and the secretary. You only need to reach that question if you think they're inferior officers,
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because even inferior officers still need to be appointed by the President and the Senate,
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unless Congress has affirmatively opted out of the default rule. But if you think they're
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principal officers, you don't need to reach that question at all. The second reason I think the
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Court of Appeals refused a rule on it was because they rejected the government's proposed severance
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remedy. And the court will also need to address this point if it wants to sever Section 299B-4A.
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because the severance remedy proposed by the government is premised on the idea that the
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secretary has constitutional authority vested by Congress to appoint the task force. If the
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secretary doesn't have that power because Congress hasn't vested the power in the secretary,
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then the government's severance remedy does not work because the inferior officers would still have
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to be appointed by the President and the Senate, even if they're considered inferior officers.
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