Way Too Early 6/18/21
Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
MS NOW, Ali Vitali
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🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There was also some good news out of the Supreme Court because today the court upheld Obamacare again. |
| 0:07.0 | The court decided that Texas did not have standing to sue because nobody was forced to pay a penalty for not getting insurance. |
| 0:15.0 | Why is that? Well, back in 2017, the GOP-controlled Congress passed a bill cutting the individual mandate penalty |
| 0:22.3 | to zero. |
| 0:23.8 | The Republicans' previous attempt to kill Obamacare killed this attempt to kill Obamacare. |
| 0:33.2 | The Affordable Care Act survives another Republican attempt to strike it down. |
| 0:37.3 | This time, it wasn't even close. |
| 0:39.0 | The question is, and I think there's an answer, is Obama Care here to stay? |
| 0:43.4 | Plus, Democrats make progress on a critical voting rights bill as Senator Joe Manchin's |
| 0:47.7 | proposal gets a key endorsement. |
| 0:49.9 | The question is, will it get enough Republican support to overcome a filibuster? |
| 0:54.1 | Let me see, we've got an answer to that, too. |
| 0:55.9 | And two of the biggest names in tennis withdraw from Wimbledon. |
| 0:59.0 | The question is, will we see them at the Olympics? |
| 1:01.9 | It's way too early for this. |
| 1:18.2 | Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that's serving up a busy hour of news ahead. |
| 1:21.0 | I am Casey Hunt on this Friday, June 18th. |
| 1:22.2 | We will start with the news. |
| 1:28.4 | A conservative-dominated Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the latest attempt by Republicans to eliminate Obamacare, |
| 1:34.6 | leaving intact insurance coverage for 31 million Americans. By a vote of 7 to 2, with Justice Stephen Breyer writing for the majority, the case was dismissed on basically the procedural basis |
| 1:39.8 | of lack of standing. The court held that a Texas-led coalition of GOP-controlled states, as well as |
| 1:46.9 | two individual plaintiffs, hadn't suffered any injury, and therefore they had no right to bring a |
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