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.
I thought the law was written so that if one part was struck down, the rest of it was voided. What happened to that?
“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.”
“That’s how are Court is supposed to work. A single Justice rules on emergency stays.”
The freedom of religion is for individuals first, religious organizations by extension.
The exemption must apply to anyone whose religion forbids such.
So now we are getting a picture of just what Roberts’ treachery is causing even in the halls of the subPreme Court. Even a progressive like Soto cannot swallow the filth.
I am shocked and amazed that she blocked the enforcement of the HHS mandate. But happy that she did.
Very hard to believe Roberts would screw us and Obammies pick would
see the light! My Goodness!
Did Justice Roberts and the liberal justices, including Sonia Sotomayor, who voted to uphold ObamaCare actually read the complete 2,000 page law before making their ruling?
If they didn’t, they should feel some remorse at having allowed a law which they only partially read to be implemented, since it is now turning out to be such a disaster.
On the other hand, whether they read the law in its entirety or not, they should be equally upset because Obama has unconstitutionally changed the law by executive order since their ruling.
In either case, all of the Justices who are not blinded by liberal partisanship should be eager to repeal as much of the ObamaCare law as possible.
More injunctions against ObamaNoCare abortion/birth control yesterday:
Is this some kind of record? On the last day of 2013 four different federal appeals courts issued temporary injunctions against enforcement of the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals acted on two different cases, Michigan Catholic Conference v. Sebelius and The Catholic Diocese of Nashville et al v. Sebelius, while the DC Circuit Court of Appeals acted in The Catholic Archbishop of Washington et al v Sebelius. Meanwhile, no less than Obama-appointee Sonia Sotomayor issued an injunction in the case of The Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, Denver, v Sebelius. Extracted from AmericanThinker.com
Did she find her soul?
Like you tagline!
Birth control isn't about money. It's about following God's mandate to Adam and Eve and all married couples:
Genesis, chapter 1
God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female* he created them.
28God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.* Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth.m
**A single Justice rules on emergency stays. **
I didn’t know this.
He was threatened and his wife and children were threatened. There is a lot more to his story and vote that we do not do. Remember, he cast it in tears?
Cover play.
I think the Sisters of the Poor probably wrote individual letters to each justice, don’t you?
She must have not got her monthly Obama kick-back check.
“Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to RULE from day one”
don't be confused by what went on in the past...its a new day
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