Nina Totenberg

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Supreme Court allows Idaho to offer emergency medical abortions

The decision brings abortion back into the political limelight as a major controversy, just months before the presidential election.

Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA’s approval of mifepristone

The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.

Supreme Court issues a temporary stay in the Texas mifepristone case

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay in a Texas case involving limited access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

Obamacare Wins For The 3rd Time At The Supreme Court

The decision threw out the challenge to the law, on grounds that Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision. The vote was 7 to 2.

Will Supreme Court Invalidate Obamacare A Decade After It Was Enacted?

There would be enormous consequences were the court to throw out the ACA, which has survived twice in the high court. But the court’s makeup is very different now than on those past occasions.

Supreme Court To Government: Pay Obamacare Insurers

Under the law, the money was promised to companies as part of the start-up costs of Obamacare. But a GOP-led Congress reneged on the promise.

Supreme Court To Government: Pay Obamacare Insurers

Under the law, the money was promised to companies as part of the start-up costs of Obamacare. But a GOP-led Congress reneged on the promise.

Supreme Court Hears Another Obamacare Case, With A Twist

The justices seemed sympathetic to $12 billion in insurance firms’ claims. The Affordable Care Act promised to partially reimburse insurers if they lost money due to peoples’ preexisting conditions.

Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Another Case Involving The Affordable Care Act

The Supreme Court hears argument on Tuesday in a case in which insurance companies are suing the Trump administration over the removal of a subsidy they were paid to cover high-risk individuals.