Biden, fellow Democrats focus on healthcare in Supreme Court fight

WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and fellow Democrats on Sunday made it clear that their opposition to US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, will focus on the possibility she could cast a decisive vote to strike down the Obamacare health law.

Barrett could be on the court's bench for oral arguments on Nov 10 in a case in which Trump and his Republican allies are seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act - the 2010 law popularly known Obamacare. That could cost millions of Americans their healthcare coverage as well as protections for pre-existing health conditions.

Barrett said she would be a justice in the mold of her mentor, the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, who twice voted in favor of previous unsuccessful Obamacare challenges.Biden tied the fate of the law to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, in which more than 200,000 Americans have died. Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that if the Supreme Court strikes down the health law,"Obamacare will be replaced with a MUCH better, and FAR cheaper, alternative." Trump failed in attempts to repeal Obamacare when Republicans controlled the Senate and House of Representatives, and Republicans have yet to say what they would replace the law with.

Republican senators have made it clear they plan to have a final vote on Barrett before the election, with Senator Mike Lee saying on ABC that he did not expect a backlash at the polls because Trump had campaigned in 2016 on appointing conservative justices.Lee said he believes Obamacare is unconstitutional but that it would be up to Barrett to vote as she saw fit.

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