Live blog of opinions | June 25, 2015
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Decision of the Fourth Circuit is affirmed in King v. Burwell. 6-3.
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This means that individuals who get their health insurance through an exchange established by the federal government will be eligible for tax subsidies.
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Short story is a victory for the ACA and the Obama Administration.
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Six are the Chief, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
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Do opinions by Roberts and Kennedy telegraph anything as far as who will be the author of Obergfell -- and therefore the likely outcome?
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This was the last opinion of the day, so we will have to wait for tomorrow for the remaining five decisions, including SSM.
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If tomorrow is the last opinion day, we will know that at the end of today's session. Stand by.
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Sorry about the glitches. Court refused to apply Chevron deference -- that is, to find that the statute is ambiguous and that the federal government's interpretation was reasonable.
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so AMY? tomorrow ..NOT monday for the other 5 decisions?
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The Court refused to apply Chevron because it did not believe that Congress intended to delegate to an administrative agency the right to decide this question.
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Why is SCOTUSblog so certain that the Justices will not reserve some opinions for release on Monday?
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Are all of the justices on the bench during opinion announcements?
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The opinion in Burwell is here. We will also have a symposium on this decision.
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From Scalia's dissent: "We should start calling this law SCOTUScare."
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As many of you may remember, the Chief Justice asked basically no questions during the oral argument in this case. But he was the author of the decision upholding the subsidies in the end.
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From the majority opinion: "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them."
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The majority also acknowledges that the challengers' "arguments about the plain meaning . . . are strong."
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@SCOTUSCare is going to get some rude things tweeted at it
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Was Kennedy in the minority on the last healthcare case and in the majority this time around?
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After acknowledging the strength of the plain language arguments from the challengers, the majority says "In this instance, the context and structure of the Act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase."
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An earlier response from Amy mentioned something about decisions being issued in order of reverse seniority. Does this mean all of the remaining opinions are from the CJ?
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Is the Chief considered to have the most seniority even if he has been on the Court a shorter time than other Justices?
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The majority: "The Affordable Care Act contains more than a few examples of inartful drafting."
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Is Justice Thomas the hardest working on SCOTUS? It seems like he goes out of his way to write separately all the time and has the most individual opinions of all the justices.
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Scalia is reading his dissent from the bench. As Kevin has noted, he has some good lines in his dissent
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In his oral announcement, the Chief Justice apparently had a lot of negative comments about the sloppiness in drafting the ACA.
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Am I mistaken that the Chief seems to vote more pro-business than pro-conservative or liberal? This is a big win for the administration, but also the health care industry.
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From the intro to Scalia's dissent: the majority's reading of the text "is of course quite absurd, and the Court's 21 pages of explanation make it no less so."
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Where did you hear in the first place that Friday was being added? I didn't see that on Monday anywhere else.
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Burwell cites to Utility Air...which hasn't been released yet, right? Is it common to cite to an unreleased opinion?
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4 to grant, 5 to decide, which is something that can lead to perverse outcomes, seems to be operating a lot this term!
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I'm not clear on the answer: since Kennedy wrote an opinion today, will he write any more this term?
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Any opinion on how Burwell will impact Chevron deference? Can courts now try and determine whether Congress intended for an agency to decide a question before applying Chevron deference?
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In response to a few questions, there are no more opinions coming today. Yes opinions tomorrow; and a session on Monday, which probably means opinions then too.
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