Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, October 16. I'm Naila Boodoo. Here's how we're making you smarter today. Last night's dueling presidential town halls.

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Will the Affordable Care Act survive a new Supreme Court?

The Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings wrapped yesterday after four days of Senate

questioning. She's expected to be confirmed by election day.

Sam Baker is exios' Supreme Court expert,

and I talk to him about what we can expect from the new court.

We have been living with a majority conservative court for an incredibly long time.

It is going to become noticeably more conservative.

You will probably see more skepticism of... more conservative handed to the president and the executive branch.

Sam, you're also the health care editor here at Axios.

What does the future of the Affordable Care Act look like with this new court?

So the case that the court is going to hear and the arguments are

November 10th a week after the election. There's two steps to it. The first

step they have to decide again whether the individual mandate is unconstitutional,

whether it has become unconstitutional since the last time.

Let's say for the sake of argument that they say that it has and they throw that out,

which I think is pretty likely.

Then the question becomes, if they do throughout the mandate,

is, OK, how much of the rest of the law

do we have to throw out?

Judge Veri did not say much during this week's hearing.

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