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of town next week Monday and Tuesday. What do we need to do to get him permission to come in with 
us for a legal visit? Thank you. 
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The Daily 202: Trump might win a Pyrrhic victory against Obamacare, as the balance of 
judicial power shifts his way 
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Trump might win a Pyrrhic victory against 
Obamacare, as the balance of judicial 
power shifts his way 
People wait in line to enter the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New 
Orleans on Tuesday to hear arguments on whether Congress effectively invalidated 
the Affordable Care Act when it zeroed out the tax imposed on those who choose not 
to buy insurance. (Gerald HerbertfAP) 
BY JAMES HOHMANN 
with Joanie Greve and Mariana Alfaro 
THE BIG IDEA: Oral arguments in New Orleans on 
Tuesday over the future of the Affordable Care Act 
foreshadowed the massive impact that President 
Trump's free rein to fill the courts with like-minded 
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juages win propaoly nave on American jurispruaence 
over the next generation. 
For now, Trump continues to suffer legal setbacks. In a 
case involving his push to add a citizenship question to the 
2020 Census, a district court judge rejected the Justice 
Department's request to change out its team of lawyers. 
Separately, an appellate court in New York upheld a lower 
court's decision that it is unconstitutional for Trump to block 
critics on Twitter because he's a public official who uses the 
platform to communicate with constituents. 
But the balance of power is changing on the courts each 
week to become more favorable to Trump, and it sure 
sounded like the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit 
might be ready to uphold at least parts of a federal district 
judge's decision in Texas that the entire 2010 health-care 
law is unconstitutional because the 2017 GOP tax bill got rid 
of the individual mandate to buy insurance. Two of the three 
judges on the panel expressed skepticism during the oral 
arguments that Obamacare can remain intact since the 
mandate was how Chief Justice John 
justified 
upholding the law in 2012. 
Judge Kurt Engelhardt, whom Trump put on the bench just 
last year, was the more outspoken of the two. He repeatedly 
noted that the law was written without an explicit feature 
guaranteeing that if one part were ever removed by 
Congress or the courts, the rest would remain in place. He 
suggested that it's the job of Congress to forge a solution. 
He questioned whether the courts should be "taxidermist for 
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every legislative big-game accomplishment that Congress 
achieves." The judge who seemed to largely agree with him 
was appointed by George W. Bush. A third judge, appointed 
by Jimmy Carter, stayed silent during the 90-minute hearing, 
per Amy Goldstein, who was in the courtroom for us. 
Engelhardt was grilling attorneys representing Democratic 
attorneys general and the Democratic House. Normally it 
would have been Justice Department lawyers defending a 
federal law, but the Trump administration is refusing to do so 
and told the 5th Circuit this spring that the administration 
agrees with the plaintiffs that it should be struck down. 
If Trump gets what he's hoping for in New Orleans, there's a 
strong argument to be made that the president will be like 
the proverbial dog that catches up with the truck. Health care 
— the issue that dogged Republican candidates in the 2018 
midterms more than any other — would almost certainly take 
a starring role in the 2020 campaign. The Supreme Court 
would probably then hear an appeal, in which 
would 
probably again cast a deciding vote — one way or another —
in June of an election year. 
McConnell mum on whether he supports Trump-Obamacare lawsuit 
-- Here are three telling illustrations of how the 5th 
Circuit could hand Trump a Pyrrhic victory: 
1) Despite a decade of efforts to kill Obamacare, Senate 
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) refused to 
say yesterday whether he supports the suit to 
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invalidate the law. "I think the important thing for the public 
to know is there is nobody in the Senate not in favor of 
covering preexisting conditions," he said at his weekly news 
conference. "And if it were, under any of these scenarios, to 
go away, we would act quickly on a bipartisan basis to 
restore it." 
Trump has had a historically large number of judicial 
vacancies to fill during his first two-and-a-half years largely 
because McConnell blocked consideration of so many of 
Barack Obama's nominees once he seized control of the 
Senate in 2015. It was not just Merrick Garland. 
2) Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who cast a key vote 
for the tax bill that could be used as a pretext by 
judicial activists to repeal Obamacare, is trying to 
distance herself from the lawsuit challenging the ACA. 
She also voted to confirm Engelhardt to the 5th Circuit, in 
addition to Justice Brett Kavanaugh. These votes could 
imperil her reelection next year. She issued a statement 
saying she opposes Trump's decision not to defend the 
health-care law in court. "The Affordable Care Act remains 
the law of the land, and it is the Department of Justice's duty 
to defend it," Collins said. 
3) "Democrats are savoring the moment," Paige 
Winfield Cunningham reports in the Health 202. "They're 
spending the week bludgeoning Republicans over the high-
stakes lawsuit, which they well know is prime fodder for 
2020 attacks. The House Oversight Committee will hold a 
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hearing this morning dubbed The Trump Administration's 
Attack on the ACA: Reversal in Court Case Threatens 
Health Care for Millions of Americans,' where a number of 
patients and consumers advocates will testify. The 
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the 
Democratic Attorneys General Association and the 
Democrat-affiliated group Protect Our Care launched 
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of print and digital 
ads around the country. Democrats in Congress delivered 
floor speeches castigating their GOP colleagues. House 
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said 
he's also planning a hearing on the lawsuit." 
-- As the judges in Louisiana considered the fate of 
health care for millions of people, the Senate voted 53 
to 45 on party lines to confirm another controversial 
Trump nominee to the 9th Circuit, the court of appeals 
that has most often drawn the president's ire. Hai* 
Fuchs notes that Daniel Bress's confirmation gives Trump 
his seventh judge on the historically liberal bench, which 
now has 16 judges nominated by Democratic presidents and 
12 by Republicans. The court still has one vacancy that 
Trump plans to fill. Bress, who once clerked for the late 
Antonin Scalia, was nominated to fill the vacancy left by • 
Kozinski, whom Kavanaugh once clerked for and who 
resigned in December 2017 amid allegations of sexual 
misconduct. 
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other podcast players. 
Welcome to the Daily 202, PowerPost's morning 
briefing for decision-makers. 
Sign up to receive the newsletter. 
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: 
British Ambassador Kim Darroch speaks at an afternoon tea hosted by the British 
Embassy to mark Trump's inauguration in January 2017. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images) 
-- British Ambassador Kim Darroch resigned from his 
post this morning after three days of public attacks 
from Trump, who was angry about leaked cables that 
showed the diplomat privately described the president 
as "inept" and "insecure." Jennifer Hassan reports: 
"Trump blasted Darroch in a series of tweets this week, 
calling him 'a pompous fool' and said his administration 
would not work with him." In his resignation letter, Darroch 
said the "current situation is making it impossible for me to 
carry out my role as I would like. Although my posting is not 
due to end until the end of this year, I believe in the current 
circumstances the responsible course is to allow the 
appointment of a new ambassador." 
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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference in May. 
(Patrick Semansky/AP) 
-- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has two 
messages for Congress this morning: Central bank 
independence is critical, and an interest-rate cut is 
likely at the end of July. Heather Long got a first look at 
his prepared testimony before the House Financial Services 
Committee: "Since [June], it appears that uncertainties 
around trade tensions and concerns about the strength of 
the global economy continue to weigh on the U.S. economic 
outlook. Inflation pressures remain muted," Powell will say. 
The U.S. economy is doing "reasonably well," Powell will 
add, but he notes that business investment has "slowed 
notably," probably because of the uncertainty around trade 
and global growth. He will also stress that the economic 
gains have not been shared evenly by everyone. Hispanics, 
African Americans and people in rural communities are 
continuing to have a harder time finding jobs that pay well. 
-- Reader feedback: Many of you, on the left and right, 
emailed in response to yestefday's_Big Idea to say that 
manufacturers should keep raising wages for workers 
if they want to make their industry more appealing to 
young people and close the skills gap. Readers wrote 
that higher salaries would have a bigger impact than any 
marketing campaign from a trade association in making the 
sector more appealing. 
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A protester dressed as a character from "The Handmaid's Tale" walks back to her car 
in May after participating in a rally against restrictions on abortion rights in 
Montgomery, Ala. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images) 
-- Support for legal abortion has hit a 24-year high as 
more states pass severe restrictions on the procedure, 
according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. 
EmilyGuskin an_d Scott_Clementreport_"The Post-ABC poll 
finds a 60 percent majority who say abortion should be legal 
in most or all cases, up from 55 percent in a 2013 Post-ABC 
poll, and tying the record high level of support from 1995. 
The latest survey finds 36 percent say abortion should be 
illegal in all or most cases, also tying a record low. A 41 
percent plurality of Americans want their own state to avoid 
making it either harder or easier for women to have access 
to abortion. Fewer, 32 percent, say their states should make 
it easier and fewer still, 24 percent say their states should 
make it harder for women to have access to abortion. ... 
Even within party ranks, allowing or banning abortion in all 
cases is a minority position. Among Democrats, 77 percent 
say abortion should be at least mostly legal, but just over 4 in 
10 (42 percent) say it should be legal in all cases. Among 
Republicans, 52 percent say it should be at least mostly 
illegal, but fewer than a quarter, 22 percent, want it to be 
illegal in all cases." 
State Rep. Greg Murphy debates Joan Perry on the campus of Pitt Community 
College. (Deborah Griffin/Greenville Daily Reflector/AP) 
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-- North Carolina state Rep. Greg Murphy won the 
Republican primary for the state's reliably red 3rd 
Congressional District, besting pediatrician Joan Perry 
by 20 points in a special election. Felicia Sonmez reports: 
"The race had been viewed by some as a test of women's 
standing within the Republican Party. Perry had won the 
endorsements of all 13 House Republican women and 
received nearly $1 million in support from an outside group 
created to boost female Republican House candidates. But 
in the end, she was outflanked by Murphy, who was backed 
by several House Republican heavyweights, including Reps. 
Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Mark Meadows (N.C.)." 
Joe Biden stops for ice cream in Iowa in April. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) 
-- Cashing in: Joe Biden, who continues calling himself 
"Middle Class Joe" on the campaign trail, earned $15.6 
million over the past two years. Matt Viser and Anu 
Narayanswamy: "The vast majority of the former vice 
president's income — which totaled $11 million in 2017 and 
$4.6 million in 2018 — came from book payments and 
speaking fees, according to newly released tax returns and 
financial disclosure forms required of federal office-seekers. 
All told, the Bidens made nearly five times more in the past 
two years than the next- highest earner, Sen. Kamala D. 
Harris (D-Calif.), who with her husband earned $3.3 million. 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-
Mass.) each took in about $1.7 million in family income. ... 
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wealth. He gave 47 speeches, according to the new filings, 
with fees as high as $234,000. His speaking fees and book 
payments amounted to $10 million in 2017 and $3.2 million 
in 2018. Biden was also a professor at the University of 
Pennsylvania, where he was paid $371,159 in 2017 and 
$405,368 in 2018." 
Shane Bieber of the Indians pitches for the American League last night at Progressive 
Field in Cleveland. (Jason Miller/Getty Images) 
-- On the strength of its pitchers, the American League 
will get home-field advantage in the World Series after 
a 4-3 win in the All-Star Game. Dave Sheinen reports from 
Cleveland: "Perhaps someone sneaked into the bowels of 
Progressive Field on Tuesday and replaced the regular, 
turbocharged 2019 baseballs with century-old versions from 
the Dead Ball Era. How else to explain — in the midst of the 
biggest home run binge in the history of the sport, one year 
after the most homers ever hit in an All-Star Game and one 
night after the most electrifying performance in the history of 
the Home Run Derby — the relatively pedestrian showing in 
this year's Midsummer Classic? There is one other possible 
explanation, of course, and it is the one, conspiracy theories 
aside, that will have to suffice: There are great pitchers 
scattered across this game (shellshocked as they may be by 
the nightly home run binges), and on Tuesday night they 
shone brightest. ... The victory was the seventh in a row by 
the AL, its 14th in the past 17 and 19th in the past 23 All-
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Star Games." 
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred denied 
yesterday that the league has knowingly "juiced" 
baseballs to increase the number of home runs this 
season, despite mounting complaints from pitchers. 
Manfred attributed the spike in homers to naturally occurring 
variances in manufacturing baseballs and vowed 
transparency as officials move to correct the problem, 
per Sheinin.
Perot in 1992 warned NAFTA would create 'giant sucking sound' 
GET SMART FAST: 
1. Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who waged two 
unsuccessful bids for president as an independent, 
died at 89. Perot was lauded for starting two software 
companies that later sold for billions, and his reputation 
as a successful entrepreneur helped him attract nearly 
20 million votes in 1992 — marking the highest vote 
share for an independent or third-party bid since 
Theodore Roosevelt and ultimately contributing to Bill 
Clinton's victory. (Donald P. Baker) 
2. Virginia's GOP-controlled General Assembly ended 
a special session on gun legislation after about 90 
minutes. The Virginia Senate voted along party lines to 
adjourn until after the state legislative elections this 
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November, and the House quickly tollowed suit. I he 
Republican House speaker accused Democratic Gov. 
Ralph Northam (D) of an "election-year stunt" for 
ordering the special session shortly after the May 31 
mass shooting in Virginia Beach. (Gregory S. 
Schneid_er,_Laura Vozzella_and Antonio Olivo) 
3. Democratic megadonor Ed Buck is facing 
allegations of human trafficking and revenge porn 
months after he came under fire when two black 
men died from overdoses in his home. Buck is now 
facing two more charges in an ongoing case brought by 
the mother of one of the two men who died in his West 
Hollywood apartment. (The Daily Beast) 
4. A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor, 
Foster, refused to allow a female reporter to 
travel with him alone because of her gender. 
Foster's campaign told journalist Larrison Campbell she 
would need to be accompanied by a male colleague if 
she wanted to go on a 15-hour trip with the candidate, 
saying the "optics" of the candidate with a woman could 
be used to insinuate an extramarital affair. (Mississippi
Today) 
5. A Senate bill would block federal funding for the 
2026 World Cup until the U.S. Soccer Federation 
agrees to give the national women's and men's 
teams the same compensation. The proposal by Sen. 
Joe Manchin Ill (D-W.Va.) comes after the women won 
the World Cuo this weekend as the crowd chanted. 
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"Equal pay!" (Des Bieler) 
6. An inspector general report accuses the hospice 
industry of repeatedly ignoring patients' pain and 
needs. One particularly grisly example recounted how a 
patient in Missouri was so neglected that his family had 
to make a trip to the emergency room to treat a "maggot 
infestation" where his feeding tube entered his 
abdomen. (Chris1:mt 
land) 
7. Electric scooters have spread to several European 
capitals, where they are sparking the same 
complaints heard on this side of the Atlantic. The 
mayor of Paris condemned the scooters as causing "not 
far from anarchy" on the city's roads, and residents of 
Berlin have complained of drunk riders and at least one 
instance of a man trying to access a high-speed 
motorway on his e-scooter. (Rick Noack) 
8. Pig-ear dog treats were recalled in 33 states 
because of a potential salmonella contamination, 
the FDA announced. The treats, which were sold in 
bins at Pet Supplies Plus stores in the states, are 
believed to be linked to an outbreak of human salmonella 
infections. (USA Today) 
9. A rare polio-like illness marked by muscle 
weakness or paralysis affected 233 people in 2018, 
the majority of them children. The CDC said the 
number of recorded acute flaccid myelitis cases last 
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started tracking the illness in 2014. (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
10. A man who was swept over the largest waterfall at 
Niagara Falls survived. Reports of the incident 
sent Niagara Parks Police scrambling to get to the 
waterfalls early Tuesday morning, where they found the 
man with non-life-threatening injuries. (Allyson Chiu) 
Trump says he feels 'very badly' for Acosta on Epstein link 
THE #M ETOO RECKONING: 
-- Trump is standing by his embattled labor secretary, 
saying he feels "very badly" for 
Acosta, as 
Democratic calls mounted for Acosta's resignation 
over the generous plea deal he struck with financier 
Jeffrey Epstein when he was a federal prosecutor. 
Trump said the White House will look closely at the 
circumstances surrounding the sex-charges deal negotiated 
by Acosta. "I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta 
because I've known him as being somebody who works so 
hard and has done such a good job," the president told 
reporters in the Oval Office. 
-- Acosta broke his silence and defended himself on 
Twitter: "The crimes committed by Epstein are horrific, and 
I am pleased that NY prosecutors are moving forward with a 
case based on new evidence," he wrote, suggesting that 
prosecutors have new evidence he did not when he was 
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