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December 18, 2013

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USAToday: "Insurers, consumers await HHS guidance as deadline looms." Just go read the whole thing. These folks are so boned. The woman who plans to take money from her IRA to pay for health insurance? No. NO. NO. The dude planning to pay cash for the birth of his child? Oy. The chick who is letting her son's insurance lapse for at least a month so that she can get covered? What in the world?

A federal district court judge ordered the Obama administration to disclose a "global directive" that it was trying to keep secret. The directive was a widely-disseminated, nonclassifed order that has the force of law, but the administration claimed it could keep its content secret merely because Obama Himself issued it. This was the second benchslap (PDF) for the administration this week:

Masterwork level footnote commentary from judge smacking Obama over secret government orders: pic.twitter.com/jlRlR40zm4
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 17, 2013

Judge Huvelle was also less than amused by Obama admin's "cavalier" suggestion that it should govern in secret: pic.twitter.com/wit9ne3cqk
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 18, 2013

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This was the second benchslap (PDF) for the administration this week: Masterwork level footnote commentary from judge smacking Obama over secret government orders: pic.twitter.com/jlRlR40zm4 — Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 17, 2013 Judge Huvelle was also less than amused by Obama admin's "cavalier" suggestion that it should govern in secret: pic.twitter.com/wit9ne3cqk — Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 18, 2013 Keep those "Ask The Blog" questions/comments/advice/requests for evidence coming. 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