The latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act arrives at the Supreme Court one week after Election Day. And this time there will be one fewer liberal justice.
, which arrives at the Supreme Court one week after Election Day.
"In the middle of the worst global health crisis in living memory, Donald Trump is at the Supreme Court trying to strip health coverage away from tens of millions of families and to strip away the peace of mind from more than 100 million people with pre-existing conditions," Biden said. “I’ve never seen this case as being the sort that would split the court 5-4 before Justice Ginsburg's passing," said Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.Timothy Jost, a health care expert at Washington and Lee University School of Law, wrote Monday that six or more justices ultimately could save the law by severing only the challenged provision. But following Ginsburg's death, he said,"the ACA is more at risk than it was just days ago.
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