Another bad day for Obama and the progressive cancer all over the country. The Supreme Court has ruled by it’s usual 5-4 margin that ruled that a closely held corporation like Hobby Lobby cannot be required to provide contraception coverage. Obama is fuming and all of a sudden wants Congress’ help to fix this now that the SCOTUS slapped him down.
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| Hobby Lobby wins SCOTUS Obamacare contraception mandate case |
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Justice Alito, writing for the majority, said that the government failed to show that the mandate is the least restrictive means of advancing its interest in guaranteeing cost-free access to birth control (Via Legal Insurrection)
The Government has failed to satisfy RFRA’s least-restrictive-means standard. HHS has not shown that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion. The Government could, e.g., as-sume the cost of providing the four contraceptives to women unable to obtain coverage due to their employers’ religious objections. Or it could extend the accommodation that HHS has already established for religious nonprofit organizations to non-profit employers with re-ligious objections to the contraceptive mandate. That accommodation does not impinge on the plaintiffs’ religious beliefs that providing in-surance coverage for the contraceptives at issue here violates their religion and it still serves HHS’s stated interests.