Houston Chronicle by Amy Goldstein and Robert Barnes 1/3/2020
Democratic-led states ask Supreme Court to quickly review Affordable Care Act's legality
A coalition of Democratic-led states on Friday asked the Supreme Court to consider the legality of the Affordable Care Act during its current term, which would mark the justices' third review in the near-decade history of the health-care law.
The request comes two weeks after a federal appeals court struck down part of the law and sent back to a lower court the question of whether the rest of the sprawling statute can stand without it.
The ruling, by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, had little immediate effect on the nation's consumers because the section the judges invalidated - the requirement that most Americans carry health insurance - was all but removed two years ago by a Republican-led Congress.
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