At a minimum, it will deprive Medicaid recipients in South Carolina of their only meaningful way of enforcing a right that Congress has expressly granted to them.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: “At a minimum, it will deprive Medicaid recipients in South Carolina of their only meaningful way of enforcing a right…”
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Jackson warns that the ruling harms Medicaid recipients' rights.
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