Hobby Lobby and EWTN
The fallout from the Hobby Lobby case that was recently ruled upon by the Supreme Court is already sending ripples through Obamacare Land...
From the National Review:
Two left-leaning judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals showed on Monday what the Obama administration should do regarding the many remaining cases involving the HHS abortifacients mandate: Give up.
It does not take much to read between the lines in the injunction that a unanimous three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit granted Monday afternoon in favor of Eternal Word Television Network, which runs Catholic-themed programming. In the case of EWTN v. Secretary of HHS, it looks to me as if two of the three judges were not eager to grant the injunction but felt compelled to that action by the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case.
... if the force of the high court’s decision in Hobby Lobby is such that two otherwise unwilling judges recognize that it weighs heavily in EWTN’s favor in its largely-but-not-entirely-related case, the likelihood is high that the Obama administration will now suffer a whole series of losses in cases against the HHS mandate. Those cases are brought by organizations such as EWTN, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and faith-affiliated colleges — groups that are not themselves churches but that provide services that are clearly church-related. As it is, the administration has already lost about 80 percent of the procedural or lower-court decisions in these cases; that number might now rise awfully close to 100 percent.
Read the whole thing.
From the National Review:
Two left-leaning judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals showed on Monday what the Obama administration should do regarding the many remaining cases involving the HHS abortifacients mandate: Give up.
It does not take much to read between the lines in the injunction that a unanimous three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit granted Monday afternoon in favor of Eternal Word Television Network, which runs Catholic-themed programming. In the case of EWTN v. Secretary of HHS, it looks to me as if two of the three judges were not eager to grant the injunction but felt compelled to that action by the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case.
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| POW! Right in the kisser! |
... if the force of the high court’s decision in Hobby Lobby is such that two otherwise unwilling judges recognize that it weighs heavily in EWTN’s favor in its largely-but-not-entirely-related case, the likelihood is high that the Obama administration will now suffer a whole series of losses in cases against the HHS mandate. Those cases are brought by organizations such as EWTN, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and faith-affiliated colleges — groups that are not themselves churches but that provide services that are clearly church-related. As it is, the administration has already lost about 80 percent of the procedural or lower-court decisions in these cases; that number might now rise awfully close to 100 percent.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Catholic Politicians, Catholics for Obama
posted by jope @ July 02, 2014
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