He also named Mahmoud Mekki as his vice president, and he reversed a June constitutional decree by the Supreme Council that claimed to retain legislative authority until a new parliament could be sworn in near the end of the year, Ali said.

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Such measures would generally be void following the Supreme Court's decision in June that the individual mandate was valid under Congress's constitutional authority to levy taxes.

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