Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare Emboldens Democrats

Republicans said their effort to rein in the Affordable Care Act would be more difficult following the Supreme Court’s rejection of the latest challenge to the 2010 healthcare law, as Democrats sought to expand it further.

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the law from Texas and GOP-led states, which had argued that a decision by Congress to reduce to $0 the penalty for not having insurance meant the law was invalid. The justices found that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the case because they experienced no injury from...