16 states appealing Affordable Care Act ruling in Texas


A group of Democratic attorneys general announced Thursday that they are appealing a federal judge’s ruling in December striking down the Affordable Care Act.

Sixteen states, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and other Democratic attorneys general, are appealing the December ruling by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas striking down the Affordable Care Act to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

O’Connor had ruled that the individual mandate to have health…

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