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Cite as:  593 U. S. ____ (2021) 

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ALITO, J., dissenting 

all other portions of the ACA.

Ruling  on  what  it  construed  as  a  plaintiffs’  motion  for
partial summary judgment, the District Court declared the 
entire ACA unlawful.  Texas v. United States, 340 F. Supp. 
3d  579,  619  (ND  Tex.  2018).    It  held  that  the  individual 
plaintiffs had standing, that the individual mandate could 
no  longer  be  sustained  as  a  lawful  exercise  of  Congress’s 
taxing power, and that the mandate was inseverable from
the remainder of the ACA, including the provisions that im-
pose financial burdens on the state plaintiffs.  Id., at 592– 
619. 

On appeal, the Fifth Circuit affirmed in part and vacated
in part.  Texas v. United States, 945 F. 3d 355 (CA5 2019).
It  found  that  both  the  state  plaintiffs  and  the  individual
plaintiffs  had  standing,  and  it  agreed  with  the  District 
Court that the individual mandate could no longer be sus-
tained under the taxing power.  But the Court of Appeals
remanded the case and directed the District Court to reas-
sess the broad relief it had ordered. 

The  state  intervenors  then  filed  a  petition  for  a  writ  of 
certiorari seeking review of the Court of Appeals’ interlocu-
tory decision.  The plaintiffs opposed interlocutory review,
but filed a conditional cross-petition asking us to review the 
Court  of  Appeals’  remand  decision  in  the  event  that  the 
Court  granted  the  state  intervenors’  petition.    This  Court 
granted both petitions.  589 U. S. ___ (2020). 

II 
We  may  consider  the  merits  of  this  appeal  if  even  one
plaintiff has standing, Little Sisters of the Poor, 591 U. S., 
at ___, n. 6; Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institu-
tional Rights, Inc., 547 U. S. 47, 52, n. 2 (2006), but the ma-
jority  concludes  that  no  plaintiff—neither  the  States  that
originally  brought  suit  nor  the  individual  plaintiffs  who 
later  joined  them—has  standing  under  Article  III  of  the