Affordable Care Act upheld

President Obama's signature on the SCOTUS-approved Affordable Care Act Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the liberal members of the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act.

Let the celebrating continue in this thread.

7:28 AM PT: With this outcome, everyone gets what they wantâ''health care for the uninsured, something to be angry about for the right.
— @mattyglesias via TweetDeck

7:29 AM PT: SCOTUSBlog:

Justice Ginsburg makes clear that the vote is 5-4 on sustaining the mandate as a form of tax. Her opinion, for herself and Sotomayor, Breyer and Kagan, joins the key section of Roberts opinion on that point. She would go further and uphold the mandate under the Commerce Clause, which Roberts wouldn't. Her opinion on Commerce does not control.

7:30 AM PT: Also SCOTUSBlog:

The Court holds that the mandate violates the Commerce Clause, but that doesn't matter b/c there are five votes for the mandate to be constitutional under the taxing power.

7:32 AM PT: On Medicaid, from AP

The court found problems with the law's expansion of Medicaid, but even there said the expansion could proceed as long as the federal government does not threaten to withhold states' entire Medicaid allotment if they don't take part in the law's extension.

7:33 AM PT: Saddest & most hilarious of trombones. RT @AriFleischer: I miss Justice Harriet Miers.
— @delrayser via web 7:34 AM PT: Justices also reject a group of 26 states' challenge to health-care law's expansion -WSJ
— @RodrigoEBR via TweetDeck

7:36 AM PT: SCOTUSBlog give the "Plain English" summary.

The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn't comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.

7:37 AM PT: Mood in Obama's campaign HQ like 12:01 New Year's Eve. Sound of cheering, whooping...
— @GlennThrush via web 7:40 AM PT: House Republicans headed into their closed door weekly conference meeting largely in silence, grim faced, @postroz reports.
— @edatpost via HootSuite

7:41 AM PT: Sore losers:

The fight for #FullRepeal begins NOW. The way to get rid of #Obamacare is to defeat Obama in November.
— @GOP via TweetDeck

7:42 AM PT: Just to reiterate, Republicans are horrified that more people will have health insurance, and are vowing that the most important thing ever is to stop that from happening.