Defending ‘Obamacare’? No. But US wants appeal kept alive

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Government attorneys are arguing that the U.S. House of Representatives and 20 Democratic-leaning states have no right to appeal a federal judge’s decision that struck down President Barack Obama’s health care law.
But in a brief filed Wednesday in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Justice Department attorneys also indicated they want a court to resolve the issue. They said the appeal should not be dismissed as moot, even though the Trump admini