In the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders that have rescinded two key aspects of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, and he’s taking a lot of heat from Democrats across the nation.

The first executive order rescinded the contraceptive mandate. In announcing the executive order, Attorney General Jeff Sessions explained that the contraceptive mandate was illegal because it violated the First Amendment rights to freedom of religion and that it was forcing Christian employers to violate their faith by providing free contraceptives and abortifacients.

The second executive order rescinded the payment of the federal subsidies for lower income healthcare policy holders. Again, this action was taken because the payment of the subsidies was being controlled by the wrong branch of the federal government, making them illegal. The legality doesn’t matter to Democrats as at least 18 states have joined in taking legal action to block Trump’s executive order.

Currently, a bipartisan group of senators are trying to finalize a bill that would legally provide the funding to pay for the subsidies so that no one receiving them has to cancel their coverage due to not being able to afford them.

But did you know that the entire Affordable Care Act was illegal from the very beginning and that many constitutional violations associated with it have taken place.

Every time Barack Obama made a change to the Affordable Care act, his action violated the US Constitution that stipulates that unless a change to an existing law is ruled unconstitutional by a court of law, ONLY Congress can make changes to a law that originated in their chambers and passed by them. A president does NOT have the legal authority to make any changes to an existing law without first going through Congress.

Remember when the individual mandate was legally challenged? That’s the mandate that states that everyone must have healthcare coverage or pay a penalty, that would be handled by the IRS? When the case was heard before the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts issued the deciding vote, ruling that the requirement to force someone to purchase a product or pay a penalty does violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

In his decision, Roberts stated the penalty was actually a tax and therefore, constitutional. However, by Roberts’ very ruling, he actually made the insurance mandate illegal for the same reason the entire law is illegal.

The Origination Clause in the US Constitution is found in Article I, Section 7.1, which states:

‘All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”

The original bill that became the Affordable Care Act originated in the Senate, not the House. When Chief Justice Roberts deemed the penalty was actually a tax, that means the law violated the Original Clause.

However, it actually violated the Origination Clause before Robert’s fateful decision.

The Affordable Care Act contains 20 hidden taxes. Remember when Obama and Democrats promised NOT to raise taxes on lower and middle-class Americans? LIES! Most of those 20 hidden taxes would affect the middle and lower-class people more than they would the wealthier sector.

In 2012, there was a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of Matt Sissel, challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act due to its violation of the Origination Clause, but the Obama controlled judicial system managed to eventually quash the lawsuit.

All anyone has to do today is to renew such a lawsuit, challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare and it could force the courts to declare the entire law unconstitutional and force Congress to get their act together and come up with a new plan, which I believe to be impossible.