More importantly (because of the many ramifications) is that Obama is serving up a hanging slider on purpose to Elena Kagan so she can crush it out of the park and "establish a principle" </ liberalspeak > as you describe.
He's going to do this with issue after issue, which means in effect that the Administration now has two Executive Department employees sitting on the High Court, each holding Obama's power of attorney as agens in rebus, as the Romans called such servants -- which is exactly why neither one of them should have been confirmed. Partisan agitators and political agents and spies have no business on the Court.
Characterizing either abortion or contraception as a "health" issue is utterly disengenuous, but the precedent is established far and wide at this point, despite the fact that scientifically, neither is necessary to maintain a patient's health.
the Administration now has two Executive Department employees sitting on the High Court, each holding Obama's power of attorney as agens in rebus, as the Romans called such servants -- which is exactly why neither one of them should have been confirmed. Partisan agitators and political agents and spies have no business on the Court.
Well said.