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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
California v. Texas
Citation:
593 U.S. __, 2021 WL 2459255Facts
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010, included an individual mandate requiring most Americans to maintain “minimum essential coverage” or face a monetary penalty. In 2012, the Supreme Court in NFIB v. Sebelius upheld this mandate as a valid exercise of Congress’s taxing power. In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which reduced the penalty for failing to comply with the individual mandate to $0, effective January 2019. Following this change, Texas and seventeen other states filed suit against federal officials, arguing that the individual mandate was now unconstitutional since it could no longer generate revenue, and that the entire ACA was inseverable from this provision. Two individuals later joined the states as plaintiffs. California and fifteen other states intervened to defend the ACA. The federal government agreed with the plaintiffs that the mandate was unconstitutional but argued it was severable from most other ACA provisions.
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