The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a task force that recommends preventive health care services that insurers must cover at no-cost, turning away the latest legal challenge to Obamacare to reach the high court.

The Affordable Care Act required insurers to cover preventive care at no cost to patients. Some Christian businesses in Texas challenged that.

The challengers argued that members of the Preventive Services Task Force were improperly appointed because they were not approved by the Senate.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Thursday expressed concern about the "tone of our political discourse" as he defended the role judges play in a democracy and argued for the need to protect them and their families from threats.

Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy — who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan — cautioned Thursday that the increasing hostility in America’s political discourse and direct threats against judges are putting the nation’s freedoms in jeopardy.