State Rep. John Turner (D-Dallas) recently voiced his support for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to deny the GOP’s constitutional challenge to Obamacare led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 to reject the GOP’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and affirmed the law for the third time, Politico reported.
Turner took to Twitter to commend the Supreme Court’s ruling.
“Glad to see that the court has rejected this latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act – which has helped more than a million Texans obtain health insurance and protected people with past and current health problems,” Turner wrote in a June 17 Twitter post. “Our state never should have brought this lawsuit.”
Paxton said in a June 17 Twitter post that he would continue to fight against the ACA.
“Obamacare was sold on a lie to the American people. Its crown jewel–the individual mandate–was unconstitutional when it was enacted and it is still unconstitutional,” Paxton said in a statement. “Yet, seven justices decided to avoid the question of the constitutionality by limiting its decision to a ruling on standing.”
The seven justices’ ruling found that the Obamacare challengers lack legal footing to stand on and marks a milestone in the decadelong fight over the ACA.
“If the government is allowed to mislead its citizens, pass a massive government takeover of health care, and yet still survive after Supreme Court review, this spells doom for the principles of federalism and limited government.”
The Supreme Court’s decision to affirm the ACA for the third time has led some of Paxton’s fellow Texas Republicans to accept that Obamacare may be here to stay.
“I suspect we’re going to continue to be working to try to make health care more accessible,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said, according to Politico. “I think three times the Supreme Court’s upheld the Affordable Care Act, and I think we need to move on.”