Longtime viewers of December NFL games may recall how a handful of then-special Saturday afternoons would feature at halftime the final stages of the “Punt, Pass, and Kick” competition among boys (and later girls) from ages 6 to 15. Regrettably, the league phased out that program in 2017.
However, a three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last Wednesday appeared to revive the judicial version of that skills competition in remanding the Texas v. United States case back to the United States District Court for the Northern Division of Texas, from whence it took on the grand ambition to declare the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate unconstitutional and conclude that the rest of the entire ACA was not severable from that legal defect.
