The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court not to exempt Catholic groups from an ObamaCare requirement to offer contraceptive coverage, after the high court gave them a temporary reprieve earlier this week.
The court filing comes in response to a surprise order -- issued shortly before coverage under the law went into effect -- by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The justice issued a stay late Tuesday preventing the government from enforcing the so-called contraceptive mandate against the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged.
The group of Catholic nuns argues that the contraceptive coverage requirement violates their religious beliefs. To get around the mandate, they claim they'd have to sign a "permission slip" authorizing others to provide contraceptives and "abortion drugs" -- or pay a fine.
Lawyers for the group made one more plea for emergency relief late Friday, filing a 17-page brief with the court saying the reprieve spared the nuns from having to choose between violating their faith and facing IRS penalties. The brief claimed the government is "simply blind to the religious exercise at issue: the Little Sisters and other Applicants cannot execute the form because they cannot deputize a third party to sin on their behalf."
This lying, dishonest slime ball told Catholic bishops last year that "accommodations would be made, compromises reached" that would keep religious organizations from having to pay for services they could refuse to provide up until Tuesday at midnight. But of course, nothing was done, and now he reneges yet again -- this time on his promise not to violate closely held religious tenets.
This is comes just a day after eleven state attorneys-general wrote a letter to HHS Sec'y Kathleen Sebelius stating she and her boss have acted illegally in changing the ACA after Congress voted it into existence.
Eleven state attorneys general are slamming the Obama administration for making repeated changes to ObamaCare without consulting congressional lawmakers, which they say is illegal.
In a Thursday letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the group specifically criticized the administration’s decision to allow insurance companies to sell policies that would otherwise be out of compliance with the Affordable Care Act for another year.
The group says the insurance “fix” flies in the face of both federal and state law because it “compounds illegal executive action.”
So what's the Great Pretender do? He urges his fellow Democrats to make the midterms
a class war while he himself goes about distracting the media from his duplicitous behavior by proposing ridiculous [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/03/obama-administration-proposes-new-executive-actions-on-gun-background-checks/']new "administrative" remedies for HIPAA regulations[/URL] that make it difficult for mental health records to be accessed when the mentally ill seek to buy a gun.
Is this clown for real? Is he a traitor? Heck, I'll ask it: Is he the anti-christ? Realistically, no, he's not the last, but he sure is the middle one.
