{"id":566850,"date":"2021-06-17T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566850"},"modified":"2021-06-17T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:21:15","slug":"scotus-rejects-challenge-to-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-rejects-challenge-to-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscotus-rejects-challenge-to-obamacare%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566850&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/U.S.-Supreme-Court-on-June-1-2021-in-Washington-DC-scaled-e1623941737817.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court slammed Texas and other Republican-led states\u2019 attempts on Thursday to take down Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>The 18 Republican states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/19-840_6jfm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">challenged<\/a> whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/06\/29\/fact-check-dhimmitude-obamacare-exempt-muslims-individual-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">individual mandate<\/a>, a requirement by law for people to purchase healthcare, can be cut from the rest of the law or if they can repeal the legislation in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>The court voted 7-2 that the plaintiffs were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision and therefore didn\u2019t have the standing to bring the challenge to court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe conclude that the plaintiffs in this suit failed to show a concrete, particularized injury fairly traceable to the defendants\u2019 conduct in enforcing the specific statutory provision they attack as unconstitutional. They have failed to show that they have standing to attack as unconstitutional the Act\u2019s minimum essential coverage provision,\u201d Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in his majority opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, we reverse the Fifth Circuit\u2019s judgment in respect to standing, vacate the judgment, and remand the case with instructions to dismiss,\u201d Breyer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch disagreed with the court\u2019s majority opinion. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/23\/congressional-republicans-joe-biden-study-committee-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Republican Study Committee Sends Letter To Biden On Obamacare Anniversary Slamming Dems For Loophole)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s decision is the third installment in our epic Affordable Care Act trilogy, and it follows the same pattern as installments one and two,\u201d Alito wrote in a dissent. \u201cIn all three episodes, with the Affordable Care Act facing a serious threat, the Court has pulled off an improbable rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"5.7719298245614\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerPelosi<\/a> on the SCOTUS ruling on Obamacare \u2014 the key issue she has battled for: \u201cA landmark victory for Democrats\u2019 work to defend protections for people with pre-existing condiitions.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kWdmLNNpoU\">pic.twitter.com\/kWdmLNNpoU<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.3404255319149\">\n<p>\u2014 Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmarinucci\/status\/1405536294227247116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>31 million Americans currently have healthcare coverage through Obamacare, as well as 54 million Americans with preexisting conditions, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/supreme-court-rules-fate-obamacare-health-care-law\/story?id=76674533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare was previously challenged two other times, in 2016 to decide the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/03\/20\/obamacare-to-go-before-supreme-court-again-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">constitutionality<\/a> of the law\u2019s contraception mandate, and in 2012 when the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/06\/28\/in-6-3-decision-supreme-court-rules-obamacare-constitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upheld<\/a> the individual mandate in a 5-4 decision.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court slammed Texas and other Republican-led states\u2019 attempts on Thursday to take down Obamacare.The 18 Republican states challenged whether the individual mandate, a requirement by law for people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280587,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/U.S.-Supreme-Court-on-June-1-2021-in-Washington-DC-scaled-e1623941737817.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To Obamacare","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/U.S.-Supreme-Court-on-June-1-2021-in-Washington-DC-scaled-e1623941737817.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To Obamacare","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}