The Affordable Care Act will once again remain as it is.

Today, several Republican-led US states, as well as representatives of the former Trump Administration, issued a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, urging the members of the United States Supreme Court to block the law in its entirety. The challenge, however, was swiftly dismissed by a majority of the Court Justices on the grounds that the challengers have no legal basis for a case.

The challengers’ primary point of attack against the ACA is the health insurance mandate, which stipulates that those who fail to purchase a health insurance plan could be subject to monetary penalties. However, as the Justices pointed out, Congress has reduced that penalty to zero, rendering it, and the challengers’ main argument, effectively moot.

“For these reasons, we conclude that the plaintiffs in this suit failed to show a concrete, particularized injury fairly traceable to the defendants’ conduct in enforcing the specific statutory provision they attack as unconstitutional,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote. “They have failed to show that they have standing to attack as unconstitutional the Act’s minimum essential coverage provision.”

According to the most recent reports from the Department of Health and Human Services, at least 31 million American citizens have health coverage through an ACA marketplace plan. This includes an addition 1.2 million that signed on for plans during the special enrollment period President Joe Biden launched in February.

“Today’s ruling is, indeed, another reprieve for the Affordable Care Act — one that rests on the extent to which the provisions its critics say are objectionable are no longer enforceable against them,” said CNN‘s Steve Vladeck, a Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas Law.

“By holding that these individual plaintiffs and states lacked ‘standing’ to sue, the justices avoided deciding whether the ACA as revised is constitutional — but also made it much harder for anyone to get that issue into the courts going forward,” Vladeck said. “In essence, they sucked the oxygen out of the ACA’s continuing constitutional fire.”