The Obama administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer says that the legal fights over ObamaCare are “effectively over.”

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In an interview with MSNBC, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who is stepping down from his post, noted that the chief justice upheld the law as it currently stands in King v. Burwell last year, writing for not just five, but six justices.

“I think the debate is effectively over,” Verrilli said.

Liberals sharply criticized Verrilli during the first ObamaCare case, in 2012, with many calling his argument weak.

He acknowledged to MSNBC that the argument “did not go so well,” but he called the criticism an “overreaction.”

The administration ended up winning the case, though, with the court ruling 5-4 that ObamaCare’s individual mandate is constitutional under Congress’s power to tax.

Verrilli noted that administration political aides did not want to use that reasoning because it would open up President Obama to attacks he was levying a new tax.

"The lawyers think we need to raise this tax power argument," Verrilli recalled aides telling the president, according to MSNBC, "and some of the political folks don't want to raise it because you'll be subject to criticism on the ground that you're taxing Americans.”

But Verrilli added, “The president didn't have any difficulty deciding that we were going to make the tax power argument right from the beginning.”

Despite the administration victories in 2012 and 2015, there is still a significant ObamaCare case making its way through the courts.

House Republicans are suing the administration, saying that it does not have the power to make certain payments to insurers without an appropriation from Congress.

A federal district court judge ruled for Republicans in May, but the decision will be appealed. Many experts think it will be thrown out due to a decision that the House does not have the legal standing to sue the president.