This is a week old - on Hobby Lobby - but still important

John Roberts Offers Conservatives A Way Out Of Birth Control Dilemma (Click here to read more)

Sahil Kapur

March 26, 2014

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Skeptics of the legal challenge to Obamacare's birth control mandate warn that a ruling against it could declare open season on virtually any law that a person or business can mount a religious-based objection to. If Hobby Lobby can be exempt because of its owners' Christian beliefs, Justice Elena Kagan wondered, what legal principle would stop other corporations from seeking religious-based exemptions from minimum wage or sex discrimination laws?

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Chief Justice John Roberts, expressing deep skepticism toward the contraceptive mandate during Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday, offered conservatives a way out of that dilemma. He contended that "closely held" businesses, like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood, who brought the case, could be given that option without opening the same door for publicly owned companies. 

{The conservative Supremes aren't even hiding it anymore - they're just going to make their OWN laws. - Bozo)