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>> the supreme court took on the case. what's the decision? >> for the third time the u.s. supreme court has spared obamacare from challenges, this time from a group of red states who said the institutional mandate was unconstitutional and could not be upheld as a legitimate taxing authority because congress had later set that tax penalty if you didn't buy that insurance at zero. today in a 7-2 decision the supreme court said the states who challenged it didn't have the legal standing to bring this case. in other words, they've thrown the case out without ruling on the underlying issue. they b...

Implications of this. >> obamacare wins again. as pete was just explaining, this procedurally has to do with how they didn't want to get into the merits of the case, rejecting it on standing being just a full objection. the conservative states were looking for one more way to chip at or attack obamacare. the headline if you're not a lawyer, it means obamacare is the law of the land. this court wants to come together because you have a wide coalition. you have most of the justices coming together. the language began -- i haven't finish the whole case, but some of the language i'm seeing in ther...

The supreme court was taking up the issue of standing. that's kind of door number one. if they had made it through that door, there would be have been a discussion on the constitutionality, door number two. if that door proceed and they decided, no, because there's no tax penalty after the individual mandate after congress repealed that in 2017, can you server -- the servability question -- can you server or cut out that piece of the law and move forward. we didn't even get to door 3. as tom goldstein is reporting and, ari, i'd like you to report on this, i want to read what justice breyer had...

This is simply a decision saying these states didn't have the legal standing to bring this case. so what this does is it means in the future, other states could try again this same legal challenge, and if they can find enough ways to get people together and cobble up another case, obamacare could face yet another challenge. but for now, obamacare survives again, a 7-2 decision from the supreme court, rejecting this challenge without ruling on the underlying case. >> that's what's so interesting here. >> we have been obviously simulcasting our pete williams who's reporting for nbc news and msnb...

Say, the biggest case. it's coming down on thursday, rather unexpectedly. your initial thoughts. >> well, i think that the headline that the supreme court is just saying that there isn't standing to bring a lawsuit, that is, you know, in this one state, the red states like texas couldn't challenge obamacare, actually understates it. you have a 7-2 decision. they do it through the back door. they say not only do texas and the states not have standing, but nobody does. this is a challenge about the minimum coverage of obamacare that everybody hat to get health insurance and now that's unforceabl...