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Ken Paxton: “The federal government cannot coerce a state to participate…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 16:16

And third, we're using the Obamacare case against them because one of the things that Justice Roberts did that was favorable to us in a bad decision was he said that The federal government cannot coerce a state to participate in a program. So in this case, they're threatening to take away our Medicaid money and our CHIP money to force us to pay this tax. (16:16–16:21)

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Asserts that federal coercion of states into programs is unconstitutional.

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