Thread by @charles_gaba

Good morning. The Supreme Court is once again issuing opinions on one or more cases starting at 10am.

This is like the 10th or 12th time they’ve issued opinions this spring. Every time there’s been the possibility that they’d rule on the GOP lawsuit to strike down the ACA. Every time they haven’t done so...so far.

At this point it’s very likely they won’t do so until the end of June, which is when the current session generally ends. That’s when the last two major ACA decisions were announced. But...they might do so earlier.

Therefore, ONCE AGAIN, here’s the four possible ways this could go: acasignups.net/21/06/01/here-…

As usual, I’ll be live-tweeting the decisions as they come out in this thread, or you can follow the folks at @SCOTUSblog. Again, it starts at 10am. Check here then.

⚠️ OK, here we go...

FIRST OPINION IS...Van Buren v US.

This is NOT the #ACA case.

It's 6-3.

Huh. Via @SCOTUSblog: "Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh join the majority opinion; Thomas dissents, joined by the Chief and Alito."

That's...weird.

There's an R-number. Which means...that's it.

One and done.

So. Assuming the current session ends on June 30th, that leaves 23 more cases to be announced in the next 27 days.

The #ACA survives at least one more day.