Stakes High For Democrats And Republicans In Bid To Rush ACA To Supreme Court
You're forgiven if in the holiday blur you missed that a federal appeals court in New Orleans has once again put the future of the Affordable Care Act in doubt. Or if you missed the news last week that a group of Democratic state attorneys general has asked the Supreme Court to hear the case in this term — which ends in June. That would mean a decision could come right in the middle of the 2020 presidential and congressional campaigns.
It is not at all clear that the high court will take the case at this point (although it is seeking a response from Republican attorneys general, the plaintiffs in the case, by this Friday).
The court does not generally accept cases that come to it before lower-court rulings are complete.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/08/794080996/stakes-high-for-democrats-and-republicans-in-bid-to-rush-aca-to-supreme-court