Summary of the Supreme Court's Decision in King v. Burwell

In King v. Burwell a majority of the Supreme Court interpreted the Affordable Care Act to mean that tax credit subsidies for the purchase of health insurance are available to citizens of all the states. And the majority of the Court squarely ruled that in the interpretation of statutes judges are not supposed to determine what they think the meaning of a statute is; rather, judges are supposed to determine what the legislature meant when it enacted a statute.