Biden is quietly reversing Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare

[Daily Kos Morning Roundup]( A morning roundup of worthy pundit and news reads, brought to you by Daily Kos. [Click here to read the full web version.]( - [Biden is quietly reversing Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare]( Biden is quietly reversing Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare, Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post The latest of these efforts came on Friday, in a little-noticed but significant decision to protect Americans from junk health insurance. In 2017, Congress repeatedly tried and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. To casual observers, it might have looked like the end of the Republican fight to kill this lifesaving, inequality-fighting, newly popular law. It wasn’t. Over the next few years, President Donald Trump found new ways to sabotage the health-care system and its protections for the most vulnerable Americans. Among the most insidious of these backdoor repeal measures: expanding “short-term, limited duration” health plans — i.e., attempting to trick Americans into plans that looked cheap but basically covered nothing. - [The rot in the federal judiciary goes deeper than the Supreme Court]( The rot in the federal judiciary goes deeper than the Supreme Court, Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post There was U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s atrocious ruling in April reversing the Food and Drug Administration’s 2-decades-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. He obliterated any notion of standing, ignored the six-year statute of limitations for challenging FDA approvals, spewed a raft of right-wing disinformation and ignored decades of medical data. The Biden administration is appealing the ruling. And let’s not forget the unsupportable ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon of Florida putting her finger on the scale to try to block the Justice Department from reviewing secret documents hoarded by former president Donald Trump. Cannon never had jurisdiction to hear the case (her ruling was overturned on appeal), invented a new category of protection for a former president and utterly ignored national security interests. - [Daily Kos has been struggling to make ends meet for the past four months. We have a lot of work to do to get ready for the 2024 elections and could really use your help right now. Please donate]( - [The Moment of Truth for Putin’s NATO Nightmare Is Here]( The Moment of Truth for Putin’s NATO Nightmare Is Here, Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast All eyes are on the NATO summit in Vilnius as Ukrainians hold their breath for a “clear signal” about Kyiv’s membership in the alliance. The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, has assured Ukrainians that this summit will be different from the one that took place in Bucharest in 2008, when Ukraine was given a polite “no” on the question of membership in the alliance. “In the communique we will be addressing Ukraine’s membership aspiration and that is something that NATO allies continue to work on, but it is not just restating Bucharest—it will look different.” The 2008 summit is regarded as a missed opportunity by many Ukrainians, including Sevgil Musayeva, the editor-in-chief of Ukraine’s leading media outlet, Ukrainska Pravda. “We had a sad experience with NATO at the Bucharest summit, when they told us we are not wanted,” Musayeva told The Daily Beast. “Now, the West is dealing with a war in Europe and we are the ones fighting for the entire continent. The problem is that the United States does not want to fight a war with Russia, so nobody seems to know what signal to give us.” - [The many ways Ron DeSantis hurts his own cause]( The many ways Ron DeSantis hurts his own cause, Max Burns, MSNBC The DeSantis campaign has so far been a slow reveal of every awkward habit the governor has developed over years cloistered in the GOP echo chamber. Once positioned by Republican strategists as the GOP’s most effective Trump alternative, the DeSantis campaign is revealing a candidate who has more in common with Mitt Romney than Ronald Reagan. And the Iowa stunt is just the latest in a string of embarrassing gaffes and bizarre strategy decisions that have humiliated DeSantis on the national stage. - [Daily Kos hats are made in the USA and union decorated. Show your support for progressive, independent media by getting yours now.]( - [The Smart Strategy Behind "Bidenomics"]( The Smart Strategy Behind "Bidenomics", Dan Pfeiffer, ”The Message Box” on Substack Using the term "Bidenomics" makes political sense as the President heads into a reelection where the economy will be a dominant issue Some thought it was a mistake for the White House to associate the President so closely with an economy with which two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied. Others found the term a little cringe or cheesy. Online/cable conversation seemed to miss this point. (Shocker!) I endured more internal and external debates about using the term Obamacare to refer to the Affordable Care Act than I can remember; and I thought it would be helpful to lay out why adopting “Bidenomics” makes strategic sense. - [Rethinking how we cover the Court]( Rethinking how we cover the Court, Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review In recent years, coverage of the Court has been criticized both for being too similar to normal political reporting—in its bothsidesism, insufficient diversity, and self-professed savviness—and not similar enough. (On the recent Slate panel, Elie Mystal argued that while trails of reporters hound obscure lawmakers through the corridors of Congress, many wouldn’t know who Alito was if he was standing behind them.) Coverage of the Court is a broad enough category that both of these criticisms can be true; it’s also true, given this breadth, that there’s room for high-level analysis, conflicting interpretations of the nuances of decisions, and for off-beat reporters to investigate the justices’ affairs without too much seeming amiss. The problem—in coverage of the Court as in coverage of legislative politics—is a question of balance, culture, and tone. Arguably, we shouldn’t want the Court to be covered the way Congress is covered right now: that is to say, often shallowly, with political optics and horse-race considerations commonly elevated above legislative substance. Equally, there is clearly not enough politics in much current SCOTUS coverage. Ultimately, staking out some sort of middle ground would be a good starting point here—with coverage that consistently communicates, if nothing else, that the story of both Congress and the Court is one of political power, and not of some supposed contrast between sordid back-room dealmaking and lofty judicial abstraction. ICYMI: Popular stories from the past week you won't want to miss: - [Casey DeSantis takes center stage, and yikes]( - [Trump prosecutors are being threatened and we all know why]( - [Notorious mob boss who worked with Trump in the '80s: 'He don't keep his word']( Want even more Daily Kos? Check out our podcasts: - [The Brief: A one-hour weekly political conversation hosted by Markos Moulitsas and Kerry Eleveld]( - [The Downballot: Daily Kos' podcast devoted to downballot elections. New episodes every Thursday]( Want to write your own stories? [Log in]( or [sign up]( to post articles and comments on Daily Kos, the nation's largest progressive community. 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