Big: SCOTUS just enjoined HHS from enforcing contraception mandate against Wheaton College in emergency order, 6-3: http://t.co/ezMx6d1W3o
— Matt Ford (@fordm) July 3, 2014
Wheaton College, an evangelical college in Illinois, has been granted a reprieve from an HHS contraception mandate. The Associated Press reports:
The justices said that Wheaton College does not have to fill out the contested form while its case is on appeal but can instead write the Department of Health and Human Services declaring that it is a religious nonprofit organization and making its objection to emergency contraception. The college does provide coverage for other birth control.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have denied Wheaton’s request and made the college fill out a form that enables their insurers or third-party administrators to take on the responsibility of paying for the birth control.
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Wheaton and dozens of other nonprofits have sued over the form, which they say violates their religious beliefs because it forces them to participate in a system to subsidize and distribute the contraception.
Justice Sotomayor wrote a 16-page dissent in the decision.
Guys I know it's a holiday weekend but the female justices are basically in revolt, check it out http://t.co/iqn0chdPuo
— Irin Carmon (@irin) July 3, 2014
Who needs fireworks when you have a Sotomayor #scotus dissent issued on the eve of a holiday weekend: http://t.co/A2AGAkmpfm
— Ariane de Vogue (@Arianedevogue) July 3, 2014
Sotomayor in Wheaton: "thinking one's religious beliefs are substantially burdened…does not make it so." #SCOTUS http://t.co/MH95X0ED3R
— Tom Taylor (@Tom_PTaylor) July 3, 2014
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J.Sotomayor writes: "Not every sincerely felt “burden” is a “substantial” one, and it is for courts, not litigants, to identify which are."
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) July 3, 2014
Note LENGTHY dissent by J.Sotomayor – to Sup Ct decision to grant WheatonCollege injunctive relief agst HHS mandate http://t.co/TfOL8duRfp
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) July 3, 2014
Some conservatives cheered the news.
@ShannonBream Great!!! Maybe they (SCOTUS) will re-visit the whole OBAMACARE law and deem it UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
— Randy Brisendine (@RandyB69) July 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/BigFoxFan1/status/484799999675338753
https://twitter.com/clk_1257/status/484812004398354432
@ShannonBream Wonderful! Keep it up SCOTUS! on a roll with good decisions!
— Sarah (@mumwhit) July 3, 2014
Not everyone was cheering.
And now the Wheaton case. Fuck this #scotus
— Big Widow Energy (@PossibleMermaid) July 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/BertGold4/status/484827160297750528
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