Obamacare Gains Unlikely Allies in Conservative Lawyers

The courtroom fight to save Obamacare gained an unlikely ally—conservatives who don’t like the law but want to preserve Congress’s intent to let it live without a penalty provision for those without insurance.

A handful of Republicans are bucking their party, asking a federal appellate court to keep the Affordable Care Act in place. They argue a Texas judge’s decision to strike the entire law is so egregious that it needs to be reversed. The case tests when courts can invalidate an entire law over a single provision, and it’s splitting some Republicans

“The stakes are whether we’re going to ...