#Supreme Court to take up ObamaCare challenge after November election

The Supreme Court will take up a challenge to the Affordable Care Act a week after the November presidential election.

The justices will hear oral arguments on the case brought by a number of red states on Nov. 10 — exactly one week after the Nov. 3 election, according to the court’s calendar.

The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, contained an “individual mandate” requiring that Americans have a basic level of health care coverage.

It also imposed a tax penalty for those who did not have coverage.

But Republicans got rid of the penalty when they overhauled the tax code in 2017.

That prompted a number of states — led by Texas and backed by the Trump administration — to challenge ObamaCare, arguing that doing away with the penalty makes the individual mandate unconstitutional because the fine no longer exists.

Democrats had urged the Supreme Court to take up the challenge before the election but the court rejected their efforts.

The court’s new term begins on Oct. 5.