The following article by Robert Pear was posted on the New York Times website July 7, 2018:
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is on a losing streak in court cases challenging its efforts to abruptly change health care policy, but the naming of a new Supreme Court justice could alter the trajectory on some of the most controversial cases, from funding Planned Parenthood to mandating contraceptive coverage.
The cases that the administration has lost have had a common theme: Federal judges have found that the administration cut corners in trying to advance its political priorities.
Most recently, a federal district judge said the administration had acted unlawfully in approving work requirements for the state Medicaid program in Kentucky.