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Behind Supreme Court's Obamacare Case, a Secretive Society's Hidden Hand
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Mar 3, 2015 - 3:26:31 PM
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - For more than 30 years, the Federalist Society has worked behind the scenes to shape Supreme Court outcomes to a conservative agenda, ProPublica's Nina Martin writes today. In King v. Burwell -- a case opening tomorrowchallenging tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act -- the society's influence could eliminate health insurance subsidies for millions of people.
Much has been said about what will happen if the court rules that low-income people who get insurance under the ACA's federal exchanges are not entitled to tax subsidies, Martin writes. But few reports have highlighted the behind-the-scenes role of the Federalist Society, whose ideas are at the intellectual heart of the King v. Burwell challenge. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pixel.propublica.org/pixel.js" async="true"></script>
Martin explores the issue in a Q&A with Amanda Hollis-Brusky, a Pomona College political scientist whose new book, "Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution," traces the group's influence on the courts. Highlights from the conversation:
The full Q&A is here: http://www.propublica.org/
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