looks like trump should have better vetted his supreme court picks .. little did trump know that his nominees were all beholden to the deep state - and would not do his bidding ..
anyway and from the link
This case, California v. Texas, case was brought by a bloc of Republican state officials looking to strike down the entire law after a Republican-controlled Congress effectively ended tax penalties for the individual mandate, which the Supreme Court previously upheld as constitutional. In his decision, Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, said the states don't have standing to challenge the individual mandate "because they have not shown a past or future injury fairly traceable to defendants' conduct enforcing the specific statutory provision they attack as unconstitutional."
Breyer was joined in the seven-member majority by Four Republican appointees — Trump picks Kavanaugh and Barrett as well as Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas. In the minority were Justices Samuel Alito and Neal Gorsuch.
