“the red states and two individuals who brought the dispute do not have the legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of the law’s individual mandate”
Individuals have no standing to challenge an “individual mandate”??? States don’t either?
So who exactly would have standing? Does the federal government have to challenge itself?
The Court ruled that, because the penalty for not following the individual mandate is now zero, no one is harmed by it-- they are free to ignore it.
The individuals had no standing to challenge the “individual mandate” because the money part was eliminated, thereby eliminating the issue.