TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 17, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld ObamaCare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, against the latest Republican challenge, The Hill reports. The justices ruled 7-2 that Republican states challenging the law lacked standing to sue. Led by Texas, the states bringing the suit focused on the law’s tax penalty designed to induce the purchase of health insurance by most Americans. They argued that former President Trump’s 2017 tax cut, which zeroed out the penalty, made that provision unconstitutional. It was the third major challenge to the law to be rebuffed by the court in roughly a decade.