Bringing in the New Year, and not just at Times Square.
Posted on 01/01/2014 4:36:37 AM PST by NYer
Bringing in the New Year, and not just at Times Square.
This just in from the Associated Press,
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only hours before the law was to take effect, a Supreme Court justice on Tuesday blocked implementation of part of President Barack Obama’s health care law that would have forced some religion-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance for employees that includes birth control.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s decision came after a different effort by Catholic-affiliated groups from around the nation. Those groups had rushed to the federal courts to stop Wednesday’s start of portions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Sotomayor acted on a request from an organization of Catholic nuns in Denver, the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged. Its request for an emergency stay had been denied earlier in the day by a federal appeals court.
The government is “temporarily enjoined from enforcing against applicants the contraceptive coverage requirements imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” Sotomayor said in the order. She gave government officials until 10 a.m. EST Friday to respond to her order.
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Sotomayor’s decision to delay the contraceptive portion of the law was joined by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which also issued an emergency stay for Catholic-affiliated groups challenging the contraceptive provision.
The fight isn’t over, but this news is a great way to ring in the New Year, eh? How about some fireworks?!
MORE,
From USA Today,
The White House did not comment on the order Tuesday night. Sotomayor issued the order a few hours before leading the final 60-second countdown and pushing the ceremonial button to drop the New Year’s Eve ball in New York’s Times Square.
A spokeswoman for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the lead counsel for the Little Sisters of the Poor, said the group was delighted by Sotomayor’s order. “The government has lots of ways to deliver contraceptives to people,” Emily Hardman said in a statement. “It doesn’t need to force nuns to participate.”
National Review: Preliminary Win in D.C.for Religious Freedom.
Earlier today, Archbishop Kurtz asked for exemption from HHS Mandate fines. See more at the USSCB.
Have been praying daily for the Little Sisters of the Poor!! Thank you, Lord, for the gift of these selfless women and this good news.
If birth control ran around $2,000 a year, then I could see some logic to it being in the package. But since Walgreens and Wal-mart market the stuff at $25 a month....why exactly is this expected to be in some health package or mandated? You might as well offer cough syrup, Preparation H, and Vitamin C pills as part of the same “free” deal, if this is all logical.
If birth control ran around $2,000 a year, then I could see some logic to it being in the package. But since Walgreens and Wal-mart market the stuff at $25 a month....why exactly is this expected to be in some health package or mandated? You might as well offer cough syrup, Preparation H, and Vitamin C pills as part of the same “free” deal, if this is all logical.
Good news, ping!
So Sotomayor issued one of the more conservative court rulings of 2013? The world has turned upside down.
Smart Latina goin’ rogue? Or did the messiah decide to let his beyotch on the bench alter this aspect to make this change for his own political expediency.
Religion is an individual right. Why must I be a priest or nun to be protected? The Left has long thought of religion as a right of personal conscience, but not personal action.
I don’t think much of Sonia Sotomayor in general, and even less of Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Even though her order was mandatory under any sane reading of the First Amendment, I’m impressed that she followed the Constitution, and I’m less disgusted with her than before this decision.
is this satire/ sarcasm?
Totally agree. Only God can convert hearts of stone. Ezekiel 36:26
I never understood how Sarah Fluke could afford to attend Georgetown University but could not afford to buy the pill for herself.
Finally the ‘wise latina’ makes good on her moniker.
valarie jarrett is fit to be tied, since sotomayer was her hand picked latina.
Justice Sotomayer just started 2014 off with a large case of heartburn for obamacare {as if it needed another kick to the balls}.
Wayell, surprise surprise! (in my best Gomer Pyle accent)
To the godless, leftist bunch she dropped the ball twice last night. It would have been a violation of the First Amendment if otherwise.
...as low as $9....
Following Obama orders to delay until after Nov elections.
This might not make McCain and Boehner too happy. /sarc
Didn’t wicked witch Sebelius proclaim ‘no more ObamaCare delays’... Judge SotoM latina must have misplaced her rubber stamp or didn’t get the memo.
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