In a separate ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously is ruling that philadelphia must accommodate a Catholic Foster Care Agency that is refusing to place children with samesex couples. Big issues at question there. Jessica schneider is live In Washington with all of the details as they come in. Focus in on the obamacare ruling, please. The Supreme Court saving the Affordable Care act, once again this morning. Doing it with a2 decision. The latest challenge of the law, that was put in place, the latest challenge is invalid because the justices are saying that the plaintiffs here, including republicanled states, didnt have the injury, or the legal standing, to bring this case. The Affordable Care act remains in effect. And the 20 million that have conch coverage under obamacare, they will continue to have coverage because of the Supreme Courts decision this morning. Its possible that republicans or other plaintiffs might find a way to challenge this law at some point. For now, it stands.
In a separate ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously is ruling that philadelphia must accommodate a Catholic Foster Care Agency that is refusing to place children with samesex couples. Big issues at question there. Jessica schneider is live In Washington with all of the details as they come in. Focus in on the obamacare ruling, please. The Supreme Court saving the Affordable Care act, once again this morning. Doing it with a2 decision. The latest challenge of the law, that was put in place, the latest challenge is invalid because the justices are saying that the plaintiffs here, including republicanled states, didnt have the injury, or the legal standing, to bring this case. The Affordable Care act remains in effect. And the 20 million that have conch coverage under obamacare, they will continue to have coverage because of the Supreme Courts decision this morning. Its possible that republicans or other plaintiffs might find a way to challenge this law at some point. For now, it stands.
i am here. it s good to have you here. you were the former policy adviser entrenched in all of this. what are your thoughts of this decision? the supreme court does not want to weigh in on this. and i think challenges are dead. they are not interested in relitigating this. you have a majority that s taking every opportunity to say no. the aca is law of the land. we re really not going to be interested in turning it over. we should remember, when president biden came in and extended the open enrollment period, we ve had over 1 million new enrollees into the accordable care act exchanges, signaling that without a mandate, lots of people want health insurance. and this is a vehicle for them to get health insurance. i think the supreme court doesn t want to upset that apple cart. you may remember that samuel
challenge the aca because they have the burden of maintaining it. that was two justices in that dissent. and the supreme court, in a 7-2 decision, keeping intact, the accordable care act. thank you, jessica, for that reporting. joining right now, cnn chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin and abby phillip, the host of inside politics sunday. taking me back to when i was hit next to you in the oral arguments, to the original challenge of obamacare way back when. what do you think as jessica is laying it out, four conservative justices joining three liberal-leaning justices for this challenge. this was a bad case. this was a long shot for the plaintiffs. in the oral argument, it looked
sake of it. although that s part of it but coming together to achieve the really ambitious goals together. you re not the first to say i m going to bring this country together. a lot of people put their hope and thought and people thought he was the answer to do that. why didn t that happen in obama s eight years? what was hard and why do you think you ll be able to do it? i don t know. i know that president obama worked incredibly hard to find common ground with republicans and democrats alike. took a message to the entire country. but i ll say he was able to achieve a heck of a lot in those eight years. domestically you look at the accordable care act. millions of americans who lead better lives, many of the lives saved because of that legislation. in foreign policy, you prevented iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. and there were little and, perhaps, smaller victories along the way. all i know is that everyone i ve