The Supreme Court will hear a suit seeking to overturn Obamacare a week after the election.
The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear arguments in the latest case seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act — one backed by President Trump — on Nov. 10, a week after the presidential election.
Democrats have seized on Mr. Trump’s support of the case, brought in 2018 by Republican state officials, as an election issue and have repeatedly mentioned it at their convention this week.
Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee and former vice president under Barack Obama, has campaigned on protecting and improving the Affordable Care Act. The law was the signature domestic achievement of the Obama presidency and has led to millions more Americans having health coverage even as the cost remains out of reach for others.
The suit awaiting the Supreme Court argues that when Congress in 2017 zeroed out the law’s penalty for failing to obtain health insurance, it rendered the entire law unconstitutional.

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