RAZD, do you think that SCOTUS leans more towards favoring wealthy conservatives or do you think they see the need for help for the middle class?
Yes, certainly in the case of the 5 conservative judges, nor do I see them concerned with the middle class in general, and middle class and lower women in particular.
The women are, and Breyers may be.
We really need another progressive judge. This article makes some telling points:
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Amusingly, it appears that the "narrow" ruling wall is already crumbling ... within days of the ruling, which just shows how bad it was.
Female justices issue searing dissent over new contraceptive case
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The fierce disagreements dividing the Supreme Court over this week’s Hobby Lobby decision were laid bare Thursday in a searing dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the Justices’ decision in a separate contraceptive case undermines confidence in this institution. The dissent was signed by all three female Justices.
Those who are bound by our decisions usually believe they can take us at our word, wrote Sotomayor. Not so today.
The dissent was in an order to grant an emergency request from Wheaton College, an evangelical college in Illinois, on a temporary basis until its appeal goes forward. At issue is the accommodation the Obama administration worked out for religiously-identified non-profits: Sign a form certifying your objection, and the insurer will provide the coverage directly, without the objecting organization having to pay. As of now, 122 non-profits have sued, claiming that signing the opt-out form for someone to get contraception violates their religious liberty. (An attorney for the plaintiffs has repeatedly referred to it as a permission slip for abortion, even though it does not actually cover abortion.)
Let me be absolutely clear: I do not doubt that Wheaton genuinely believes that signing the self-certification form is contrary to its religious beliefs, Sotomayor wrote. But thinking one’s religious beliefs are substantially burdened does not make it so. She added, Not every sincerely felt ‘burden’ is a ‘substantial’ one, and it is for courts, not litigants, to identify which are.
She added, The Court’s actions in this case create unnecessary costs and layers of bureaucracy, and they ignore a simple truth: The Government must be allowed to handle the basic tasks of public administration in a manner that comports with common sense.
Sotomayor also pointed out that the facts of the case hardly met the Court’s high standard for such an emergency injunction. The dissent was co-signed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Elena Kagan, but not Justice Stephen Breyer, who also dissented with them in Hobby Lobby.
So suddenly, not a week has passed, and the breadth of the Hobby Looney ruling has spread from 4 birth control methods to all birth control methods and from closely held corporations to more general application.
So much for the narrow minded "narrow ruling" ...
Enjoy
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