White House asks high court to end ACA even as use climbs amid pandemic

The Trump administration wants the U.S. Supreme Court to do away with the Affordable Care Act, eliminating health coverage for as many as 23 million people. The White House turned in its 82-page brief on Thursday, just before midnight, joining 17 states and Republican officials in Texas in claiming that when the individual mandate went away, it made the entire law unconstitutional, The New York Times reports. Because Congress meant for the act’s three main provisions to function together, the…