Seeking to curtail what it sees as an unbridled expansion of congressional power, the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
More than two dozen such lawsuits are pending in federal courts across the U.S., but the conservative law center's challenge of the law on Wednesday became the first to reach filing clerks with the high court. The Supreme Court accepts only a small fraction of petitions each year for oral arguments, but observers on all sides of the controversy say they expect the nine justices will stand in ultimate judgment of the reform law.