The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Affordable Care Act after Texas, joined by 17 other states and former President Donald Trump, tried to have it declared unconstitutional.

The court found that Texas and the other challengers did not have standing to challenge the law because it could not show “a past or future injury” connected to the parts of Obamacare that they wanted declared unconstitutional. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion for the 7-2 decision. Justice Clarence Thomas concurred.

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