Democratic States Ask for High Court Review of Obamacare Ruling (2)

Jan. 3, 2020, 7:00 PM UTCUpdated: Jan. 3, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

The U.S. Supreme Court is once again being asked to decide the fate of Obamacare.

A coalition of 20 states and the District of Columbia led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) asked the court Jan. 3 to review the Dec. 18 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that put the fate of the nation’s health-care law in limbo.

The state’s said the lower court’s decision “cast doubt on hundreds of other statutory provisions that together regulate a substantial portion of the nation’s economy.”

In a separate request, the states asked the justices to ...

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