GOP States Respond to Supreme Court Ruling, Say Justices Ducked on Key Question

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the launch of an antitrust investigation into large tech companies outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 9, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Several Republican-led states on Thursday accused the Supreme Court of ignoring whether Obamacare is unconstitutional or not after the high court handed down a favorable ruling upholding the law.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, alleged that the Affordable Care Act “was sold on a lie to the American people” and said the “individual mandate ... was unconstitutional when it was enacted and it is still unconstitutional.”