Supreme Court Urged to Reject Fast Action on Obamacare Appeal (1)

There’s no reason the U.S. Supreme Court should fast-track its consideration of an appeal over the constitutionality of Obamacare, the Trump administration said.

“The Fifth Circuit’s decision itself does not warrant immediate review because it did not definitively resolve any question of practical consequence,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the court in a filing Friday.

A group of mostly Republican states led by Texas also urged the court in a separate filing to deny the requests for the court to speed up its review of the appeal.

“In reality, there is no emergency justifying that departure from the ordinary course,” ...