Justice Sotomayor issues temporary stay blocking contraception mandate

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday issued a temporary stay blocking the Obamacare contraception mandate at the request of the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged. The Associated Press reports:

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s decision came Tuesday night after a different effort by Catholic-affiliated groups from around the nation. Those groups rushed to the federal courts to stop Wednesday’s start of portions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Sotomayor acted on a request from an order of Catholic nuns in Colorado, whose request for a stay had been denied by the lower courts.

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor just granted a temporary stay from the imposition of the mandate for the Catholic Churches from Ocare

— Barbie Lee (@UF2) January 1, 2014

Scotus temporarily halts birth control mandate for Catholic charity. Sotomayor issued the stay before joining Seacrest and Miley for NYE.

— Stephanie Goggans (@StephGoggans) January 1, 2014

Greg Lipper is a litigator at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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In other words, it is very much a temporary stay. Still, some felt betrayed by Sotomayor.

Wait, Sotomayor was the one who issued the stay? That's some bullshit right there.

— Dianna "Minneapolis Goddamn" Anderson ?️‍? (@diannaeanderson) January 1, 2014

Ending 2013 with the #SCOTUS birth control mandate is almost fitting, unfortunately, in this perilous year for reproductive rights.

— Drew (@nameverb) January 1, 2014

@nameverb Did I read correctly that Sotomayor voted FOR the stay?

— John Abramowitz (@onthebird) January 1, 2014

Irin Carmon, a reporter with MSNBC digital and Gosnell coverup denier, tweeted and quickly deleted her own Shakespearean criticism of Sotomayor.