i know we have a lot of people joining us online. le joining us online. i want to welcome you all to our annual round up of the recently completed term. the supreme court stayed out of the election disputes. justice stephen breyer decided to stick around for one more term. of course, there were opinions. in short, we have a lot to talk about. we have a terrific panel to do just that. i am joined by two outstanding scholars, josh blackman joining us for truly, and we are grateful to have with us two veterans of this program, award-winning scribes. we have a lot to uncover, therefore i am going to give each of them a brief introduction, way shorter than they deserve. first, josh blackman, josh is an associate professor of law at south texas college of law in houston. he specializes in constitutional law, the supreme court, and the intersection of law and technology. after graduating from george mason law school, he clicked for kim gibson in the western district of pennsylvania, and then danny boggs. in addition to being a regular contributor, he is an adjun

used that to modify aca. they didn't actually repeal the mandate, all they did was the reduced the penalty to zero dollars. if you failed to have insurance, you paid a penalty of zero dollars. nothing. around the time this bill was passed -- this change seems to topple the construction. the construction's premise was the fact that the law reads as revenue, the laws no longer is revenue, so therefore we have no more mandate. it is unconstitutional. i was not the only one who -- texas, and a number of other states, brought lawsuits challenging the aca, later individual private plaintiffs brought a lawsuit. the biggest hurdle was not the merit, the merit was the easiest part, the court actually got the merits and -- the merits itself or never -- the states argued there were injured? people not under the mandate may decide to quaff medicaid and do other things. those affect the state of the employer. those injuries traceable to the decision of -- ok, the private plaintiffs made a different argument. they said we

us for truly, and we are grateful to have with us two veterans of this program, award-winning scribes. we have a lot to uncover, therefore i am going to give each of them a brief introduction, way shorter than they deserve. first, josh blackman, josh is an associate professor of law at south texas college of law in houston. he specializes in constitutional law, the supreme court, and the intersection of law and technology. after graduating from george mason law school, he clicked for kim gibson in the western district of pennsylvania, and then danny boggs. in addition to being a regular contributor, he is an adjunct scholar at the cato institute and founder of the harlan institute. he is the author of three books, an introduction to constitutional law, and two books about obamacare. you will have to tell us where -- whether there is a third book. to my left, gregory garre, global chair of the supreme court and appellate process. a graduate of george washington university law school, she -- on the third circuit and william rehnquist. he served as a 44 solicitor general of the united st