Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

The ruling carries political as well as legal and constitutional implications for the president and Congress.

The Trump administration has sought to exempt employers with religious or moral objections from the program established under the Affordable Care Act.

In the dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the court’s majority had adopted a “simplistic approach.”

The 65-year-old Roberts, the nation’s 17th chief justice, has had a history of occasional seizures going back to 1993.

Thirty-two states require the people chosen on Election Day to cast ballots for the winner of their states’ popular vote, but 18 states do not.

The justices’ decision not to hear any new cases follows the recent death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, while in police custody.

Must the men and women chosen on Election Day to vote for the winner of their state’s popular vote stay loyal to the cause? Or can they go rogue?

The justices’ willingness to hear a dispute the high court has considered twice before likely bodes well for the Obamacare provision’s challengers.

The decision represents the high court’s views on Congress’ power of the purse: Lawmakers cannot promise funding and then disavow that pledge.