Trump administration takes aim at ObamaCare in Supreme Court brief
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-obamacare-in-supreme-court-brief
The Trump administration on Thursday night filed a brief in a highly charged Supreme Court case that has the potential to completely overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare, in the third direct assault on the law that has come before the tribunal since it was enacted in 2010.
The case, California v. Texas, is brought by a group of red states arguing that because Congress eliminated the financial penalty associated with the individual mandate the provision in the ACA that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance it is no longer a valid exercise of the government's power to tax and therefore is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court reading the mandate as a tax is what saved the law during a previous challenge, enraging conservatives who thought the Republican-appointed majority on the court would strike down the ACA.
The red states further argue that the individual mandate is not "severable" from the rest of the law, meaning it was so instrumental to Congress' plan when it originally passed the legislation that the rest of the law also needs to be declared invalid if the Supreme Court rules the individual mandate is unconstitutional. The Trump administration in its brief supported that position.