Morning Joe 6/18/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, remains valid, rejecting a claim by a group of conservative states that a recent change in the law made it unconstitutional.

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0:00.0	some good news out of the Supreme Court because today the court upheld Obamacare again.
0:06.0	The court decided that Texas did not have standing to sue because nobody was forced to pay a penalty for not getting insurance.
0:14.0	Why is that? Well, back in 2017, the GOP-controlled Congress passed a bill cutting the individual mandate penalty to zero.
0:22.8	The Republican's previous attempt to kill Obamacare killed this attempt to kill Obamacare.
0:32.1	All right. Good morning. Happy Friday. Welcome to Morning, Joe. It is Friday, June 18th, day before June 10th.
0:40.4	We have a lot going on this morning. A conservative, dominated Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the latest attempt by Republicans to eliminate Obamacare, leaving intact insurance coverage for 31 million Americans.
0:55.9	By a vote of 7 to 2, with Justice Stephen Breyer writing for the majority,
1:00.6	the case was dismissed on the procedural basis of lack of standing.
1:05.7	The court held that a Texas-led coalition of GOP-controlled states and two individual plaintiffs had not suffered any injury
1:13.6	and therefore had no right to bring suit. Trump appointees, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney-Barrant,
1:21.1	voted in the majority on a ruling that leaves in place the entirety of the Affordable Care Act.
1:29.4	Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.
1:33.5	So, Willie, big news, big news from the Supreme Court this morning.
1:39.7	Especially when you look at that vote by Amy Coney-Barrant.
1:42.3	We heard from a lot of progressives and a lot of Democratic senators that she was on a mission
1:46.3	to destroy the Affordable Care Act, not the case yesterday and not the first time that
1:51.3	Trump appointed justices have sided with the court's liberals.
1:54.3	In 2018, Neil Gorsuch was the swing vote on a case about deporting undocumented immigrants
2:00.5	for violent crimes,
2:01.6	to saying the law was too vague. In 2019, Brett Kavanaugh surprised many when he sided with
2:06.9	the court's liberals ruling that iPhone users could pursue antitrust lawsuits against Apple
2:12.4	over its app store. Cavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in that case. And last year, it was Gorsuch,
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