A federal judge’s ruling Friday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional sets up a major legal showdown over the law but won’t affect existing Obamacare coverage in the short term. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said that when last year’s tax cut legislation removed the individual penalty for not having health coverage, it knocked the constitutional foundation out from under the law. The Supreme Court decided in a landmark case in 2012 that Congress had the authority to enact most of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare package as a tax provision.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday partially blocked the enforcement of temporary rules that brought relief to businesses and organizations with religious objections to providing abortifacients and contraceptives to their employees. In 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services issued temporary rules to exempt any employer with a religious or moral objection from the Obamacare mandate requiring employee healthcare plans to include coverage of birth control.

The Supreme Court handed Planned Parenthood a legal victory Monday by refusing to take up two funding cases that lower courts decided in the abortion provider’s favor. Planned Parenthood successfully sued the states of Louisiana and Kansas for dropping the organization as a Medicaid provider after undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress showed the abortion giant profiting from the sale of aborted baby body parts.

Chief Justice John Roberts and President Donald Trump sparred this week over perceived bias in the federal judiciary. The spat arose after U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, an appointee of President Barack Obama, issued a temporary stop Monday to a Trump executive order that would have granted asylum only to immigrants who legally enter the country. Speaking with reporters, Trump remarked that Tigar was an “Obama judge.”

A U.S. appeals court Thursday let stand an order keeping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in place, overriding President Donald Trump’s effort last year to end it. DACA allows people who were brought to the United States illegally as children to stay here but doesn’t grant them legal immigration status. The government reasoned that former President Barack Obama overstepped his executive authority when he created DACA.

A grand jury indicted the captain of a Missouri tourist boat that sank and killed 17 people in July, charging him with 17 counts of neglect of duty by a ship’s officer resulting in death, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Kenneth Scott McKee was captaining an amphibious vessel called a duck boat on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Mo., in July when a sudden storm hit, causing the accident. Nine people from an Indiana family were among the victims.

UPDATE: Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., both said late Friday they would vote Saturday to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, making his seat on the high court all but a done deal.