Townhall Excerpt:
However, the Trump administration has asked the court for 60 more days to work with the plaintiffs toward a solution, citing unfilled cabinet positions.
“The new Administration has been in place for only a few months,” the DOJ writes. “The regulations at issue here are jointly administered by three Departments—the Department of Health & Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury—and are the subject of numerous other lawsuits being handled by the Department of Justice. The nominee to be Secretary of Labor has not yet been confirmed, and numerous subcabinet positions at the Departments have not yet been filled.”
“The issues presented by the Supreme Court’s remand order are complex; for example, the original accommodation took more than a year to develop with input from interested parties,” they add, also pointing out that the group will still have “the benefit of the interim relief that the Supreme Court provided in its remand order.”
Eric Rassbach, a lawyer with the nonprofit law firm the Becket Fund, that represents the plaintiffs in the case, doesn’t buy that the Department of Justice needs 60 more days.
I’m also reading around Lifezette.com and Laura Ingraham. She’s a big pro-lifer; surely, she knows us Trump pro-lifers are scratching our head about this issue.