Supreme Court Tosses Out Dispute Over Medicaid Work Requirements

The Supreme Court won’t be rescheduling arguments in the fight over work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries that had been sitting in limbo at the court for over a year.

The justices on Monday agreed the cases disputing the Trump administration’s approval of work rules in Arkansas and New Hampshire are now moot, and sent them back to the trial court with instructions to wipe the decisions off the books and dismiss them.

Though the Biden administration is opposed to Medicaid work rules, the Justice Department took the unusual step of asking the justices to vacate lower court rulings that invalidated ...