Last year, 20 Republican states filed a lawsuit seeking to end Obamacare. Last month, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with the Republican states. He ruled that the ACA is unconstitutional since the Congress repealed the individual mandate, a penalty or tax on those who do not have health insurance.
On Friday, the Democratic-controlled House asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to allow it to “exercise its rights to intervene…so that it may defend the validity of the ACA.”
The House enumerated federal statutes and case precedents to support its motion. It also noted, “While the Department of Justice normally defends the validity of Acts of Congress when they are challenged in court, here it has joined the plaintiffs in attacking the validity of the individual mandate.”
“The House has a unique institutional interest in participating in this litigation to defend the ACA against the remaining challenges, and intervention should be granted.”
