Kennedy Says IRS Can't Rest On Ambiguous Policies As SCOTUS Hears ACA Case

March 4, 2015 at 7:44 PM
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested Wednesday (March 4) that it would be a drastic step for the high court to say that the Internal Revenue Service can make its own call on how to distribute billions of dollars in federal funds to subsidize health insurance premiums, if the justices do end up deciding that language at the core of the Affordable Care Act's greatest legal threat is ambiguous. “It seems to me our cases say that if the...


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