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The often-challenged Affordable Care Act suffered a potentially crippling constitutional blow in federal court on Thursday, when a trial judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that the government had...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/05/judge-billions-spent-illegally-on-aca-benefits/

Five federal judges, breaking ranks with a rising number of their colleagues on the federal courts of appeals, predicted on Thursday that the federal health care law’s birth-control mandate ul...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/09/judges-predict-foes-will-win-on-birth-control-mandate/

A new challenge to the federal mandate requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty stirred up a major constitutional debate in a federal appeals court on Friday.  Howe...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/health-insurance-mandate-survives-again/

Commentary Amid widening claims that religious liberty in America is under siege, the Supreme Court over the past year and and a half has reacted eight times to one of the most intense and emotio...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/07/the-aca-birth-control-controversy-made-simple/

Issuing a new round of rules to carry out two Supreme Court rulings on women’s access to free birth control, the Obama administration cleared the way on Tuesday for some for-profit businesses ...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/07/new-rules-for-aca-birth-control-mandate/

Michael F. Cannon (@mfcannon) is director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. He has been described as “the intellectual father” of King v. Burwell and is co-author (w...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/symposium-six-humpty-dumptys-playing-calvinball/

Abbe R. Gluck is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. “A fair reading of legislation demands a fair understanding of the leg...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/symposium-congress-has-a-plan-and-the-court-can-understand-it-the-court-rises-to-the-challenge-of-statutory-complexity-in-king-v-burwell/

Adam J. White is counsel with Boyden Gray & Associates, and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His firm filed an amicus brief in King on behalf of the Galen Institute, arguing that the...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/symposium-defining-deference-down/

Nicholas Bagley is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan. Portions of this post appeared in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. With its decision in King v. Burwell, the Supr...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/symposium-words-still-have-meaning/

David B. Rivkin, Jr. is a constitutional litigator at BakerHostetler, LLP, who served in the Justice Department and the White House Counsel’s Office in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administr...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/symposium-bypassing-separation-of-powers-to-fix-sloppy-laws/