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Topic: SCOTUS denies emergency
injunction in contraception case |
SCOTUS denies emergency
injunction in contraception case
Politico, by Jennifer Haberkoen/Kathryn Smith
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Posted By:Drive, 12/27/2012 9:13:09 AM
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| The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Hobby Lobby’s request for an emergency injunction to block the health reform law’s contraceptive coverage requirements and said it will not decide the case before lower courts have ruled. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the store owner doesn´t meet the extremely high standards required for a preliminary injunction. It´s not "absolutely" clear that they need the injunction and lower courts have been divided on whether to grant similar requests, she wrote, though she adds that the court doesn´t have much experience with similar religious-based claims for emergency injunctions.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 12/27/2012 9:21:51 AM (No. 9085532)
Extremely high standards? Hobby Lobby isn´t a friend of Obama´s or Planned Parenthood so no special treatment for you!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lydwho, 12/27/2012 9:28:36 AM (No. 9085546)
Damn!!! Shoulda made a contribution to the big ones campaign!!!
Art
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jkb, 12/27/2012 9:37:48 AM (No. 9085575)
It wasn´t SCOTUS that denied. It was that ´wise Latina´.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Proudsaber, 12/27/2012 9:55:00 AM (No. 9085620)
#1 All they have to do is drop their. insurance to solve this problem.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou, 12/27/2012 10:00:27 AM (No. 9085635)
Sotomayor doesn´t meet the extremely high standards for a Supreme Court Justice either, but unfortunately we stuck with her.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 12/27/2012 10:58:01 AM (No. 9085766)
Elections have consequences.
The consequence of the last election was the death of our republic.
Just wait until NØbama gets to flip one conservative Supreme Court justice. Once the lie-berals have a majority on the SCOTUS, the Constitution is dead.
No guns, no freedom of speech for conservatives, Christianity and Judiasm banned, etc, etc, etc.
Expect the next Suprement Court justice to be an even ´´wiser´´ black lesbian female who will make Sotomayor look like a red neck conservative.
I just truly hope that NØbamacare comes with free Vaseline for the massive reaming we are all going to be bending over and taking for the next few years!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 12/27/2012 11:03:44 AM (No. 9085780)
The pendulum always swings back in the other direction. God, how I hope so.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/27/2012 11:43:26 AM (No. 9085886)
Secretary Sebelius didn´t bother with a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the rule. Churches and religious institutions still may get a waiver so their cases haven´t been allowed because they haven´t been harmed yet. One case was just recently reinstated by Circuit Court of Appeals and the judge demanded that government provide the detailed waiver to him and has told them he will check on their progress every 60 days.
There is imminent harm in the form of fines. There is a clear legal argument that the mandate is unconstitutional but argument hasn´t yet been heard. This is what injunctions were made for. If I were Hobby Lobby I´d record all the fines and after winning the case would sue Sotomayor for failing to protect citizens from overreaching dictatorial government.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lavalette, 12/27/2012 11:50:36 AM (No. 9085907)
It sounds like Hobby Lobby will suffer irrepairable harm January 1 without this injunction even if they prevail later.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lavalette, 12/27/2012 11:52:21 AM (No. 9085914)
The Court does not have much experience with similar religious liberty cases because previous administrations have not sought to encroach on the religious liberty of the citizens with such zeal.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 12/27/2012 12:28:43 PM (No. 9085998)
Sonya should be denied the sacrament of Holy Communion wherever she goes to Mass.
The bishops have got to get tough on this.
As a divorced/remarried former Catholic, I respected my former chuch´ teachins, and became a Lutheran.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kewmac, 12/27/2012 3:35:29 PM (No. 9086309)
Thanks John and thanks Lindsey for giving us the two Obama SCOTUS nominees. They should have been "Borked" as should anything else nominated in the future by the Won. "They send One of ours to the ER and we send two of theirs to the morgue..." exemplifies the Chicago Way and we must adopt their tactics or abandon the fight. This is war and to pretend it is anything else is either an absolute delusion or treason.
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