OBAMA WINS IN COURT – AT 10:22 A.M. ET: This is just developing: The Supreme Court has sided with President Obama over Obamacare. From Fox:
In the second major court win for President Obama on his signature health care law, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld ObamaCare subsidies in states that did not set up their own health care exchanges.
The decision was 6-3.
A ruling against the administration would have threatened subsidies in nearly three-dozen states. For months, though, the administration said it had no back-up plans, confident the Supreme Court would rule in its favor.
The Supreme Court previously upheld the law's individual mandate in 2012, in a 5-4 decision.
This time, the justices said the subsidies that 8.7 million people currently receive to make insurance affordable do not depend on where they live, under the 2010 health care law.
Chief Justice John Roberts again voted with his liberal colleagues in support of the law. Roberts also was the key vote to uphold the law in 2012. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a dissenter in 2012, was part of the majority on Thursday.
COMMENTS: Roberts is becoming the Earl Warren of today. President Eisenhower appointed Warren as chief justice, thinking he was getting a Republican. He got Earl Warren. George W. Bush thought Roberts was a reliable conservative vote. He is not.
June 25, 2015 |