Meet the two GOP attorneys general siding with Democrats in ACA lawsuit
Last December, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dialed into a conference call with other Republican AGs to discuss their ongoing lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.
They were trying to persuade Yost, then AG-elect, to come on board. Instead, Yost decided to take them and their controversial litigation to task.
“Striking the entire ACA … because of a single unconstitutional provision is going to deny the law’s
protections for all those Ohioans and that unquestionably is the highest-visibility impact,” Yost told me in a phone interview last week.
The high-stakes lawsuit, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is expected to rule on within the next two months, has pitted 18 GOP-led states and the Trump administration against nearly
three dozen Democrat-led states over the nearly 10-year-old health-care law.
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