Unraveled

Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law, Houston. He is the author of Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare (2013). Professor Blackman regularly provides public commentary on constitutional matters, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and other national publications.

Unraveled provides the definitive account of the battle to stop Obamacare from being 'woven into the fabric of America'.

Prologue; Part I. The Promise of Obamacare: 1. 'If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance'; 2. Federal and state exchanges; 3. Life and religious liberty; Part II. Conscience and Contraception: 4. The contraception mandate; 5. Election slowdown; 6. Faith in the courts; Part III. Shutdown: 7. Exchanges 'established by the state'; 8. Tea party summer; 9. 'Train wreck'; 10. Filibuster; Part IV. Obamacare Unravels: 11. Lights out; 12. Canceled; 13. Government by blog post; 14. Crashing into the deadline; Part V. Religious Liberty: 15. New year's resolution; 16. Substantial burden; 17. 'Glitch'; 18. Between two ferms; 19. Corporate prayer; 20. Notorious RBG; Part VI. Nuclear Fallout: 21. Circuit split; 22. Dueling petitions; 23. 'So sue me'; Part VII. Subsidizing Obamacare: 24. #GruberGate; 25. King v. Burwell; 26. Gridlock; 27. 'Unravel what's now been woven into the fabric of America'; 28. 'Improve health care markets, not destroy them'; Part VIII. The Nuns: 29. Make health care great again; 30. Short-handed court; 31. 'Hijacked'; 32. 'Accommodation'; Epilogue.