It is not at all clear that the high court will take the case, although it did seek a response from Republican attorneys general, the plaintiffs in the case, by Friday.

You're forgiven if in the holiday rush you missed the news last month that a federal appeals court in New Orleans once again put the future of the Affordable Care Act in doubt and ordered a lower court to review its fate. Or if you missed the news last week that a group of Democratic state attorneys general have asked the Supreme Court to hear the case — in this term, which ends in June. That would mean a decision could come right in the middle of the 2020 presidential and congressional campaigns.

It is not at all clear that the high court will take the case at this point, although it did seek a response from Republican attorneys general, the plaintiffs in the case, by Friday. The court does not generally accept cases that come to it before lower-court rulings are complete.

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