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Since its inception, the Affordable Care Act has faced three foundational legal challenges. And in each “installment of our epic Affordable Care Act trilogy,” the Supreme Court rebuffed those attacks. First, NFIB v. Sebelius upheld the ACA’s individual mandate as an exercise of Congress’ taxing power. Second, King v. Burwell held that the ACA, which subsidizes health care exchanges “established by the State,” also subsidizes the federal exchange. And this past term, the Supreme Court decided California v. Texas, the final installment in the trilogy.
I filed an amicus brief in support of the individual plaintiffs in California v. Texas. Portions of this chapter appeared in Cato Supreme Court Review 2021.
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Notes
- 1.
California v. Texas Alito dissent, page 1.
- 2.
567 U.S. 519 (2012). See Josh Blackman, Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare (Public Affairs, 2013).
- 3.
576 U.S. 473 (2015). See Josh Blackman, Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- 4.
See Josh Blackman, Undefeated: Trump, Obamacare, and the Roberts Court (forthcoming 2022).
- 5.
Texas v. United States, 340 F. Supp. 3d 579 (N.D. Tex. 2018).
- 6.
Texas v. United States, 945 F.3d 355 (5th Cir. 2019) at 393 (emphasis added).
- 7.
California v. Texas decision at 2.
- 8.
Transunion LLC v. Ramirez (2021) majority opinion at 7.
- 9.
California v. Texas decision at 5.
- 10.
Ibid.
- 11.
Ibid. at 11, 12.
- 12.
Ibid. at 15 (quoting Allen v. Wright, 468 U.S. 737 [1984] at 751).
- 13.
Ibid. at 10.
- 14.
Federal Respondent Brief at 11–12.
- 15.
Ibid.
- 16.
See Brief of Cato Institute as Amicus Curiae, https://bit.ly/3eduwTZ.
- 17.
California v. Texas decision at 10.
- 18.
Ibid. at 16.
- 19.
Ibid. at 2.
- 20.
Alito dissent at 1.
- 21.
Ibid. at 8.
- 22.
Ibid. at 11.
- 23.
Ibid. at 2.
- 24.
Ibid. at 14 (emphasis added).
- 25.
Ibid. at 13.
- 26.
Ibid. at 21.
- 27.
Ibid. at 22.
- 28.
Ibid. at 23.
- 29.
Ibid. at 2.
- 30.
Ibid. at 25.
- 31.
Ibid. at 27.
- 32.
NFIB v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012) joint dissent at 696.
- 33.
California v. Texas Thomas concurrence at 1.
- 34.
Ibid. at 4.
- 35.
Ibid.
- 36.
Ibid. note 2.
- 37.
Alito dissent at 2.
- 38.
Ibid. at 22 note 9.
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Blackman, J. (2022). California v. Texas on the Final Installment of the Obamacare Trilogy. In: Marietta, M. (eds) SCOTUS 2021. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88641-7_4
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