President Obama suffered two final defeats in the Supreme Court on Monday, capping a 2013-2014 term in which the justices delivered several judicial hits to the White House while taking a firm stand against the unchecked power of the state.
The administration’s losses on Obamacare rules and compulsory union dues served as a rebuke on the Supreme Court’s final day after months of judicial decisions to rein in big government on issues such as snooping without a warrant, campaign finance restrictions and Mr. Obama’s recess appointment powers.
More: The left loses its mind.
I didn’t even know what Hobby Lobby was until I followed the link. I assumed it was an affectation for what leftards do.
Freedom still has a small hold in the US.
One thing to be happy about is the country would literally blow up if Barack pulled an FDR and stuffed 4 new judges or so into the court.
Such hatred for an arts and crafts retail chain. Wow!
Sandra Fluked-up calls the decision an attack on women:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/30/sandra-fluke-the-hobby-lobby-case-is-an-attack-on-women/
Not necessarily, Rob. This administration has been losing a lot of these decisions 9-0. Meaning the President can’t even get his own appointees to support his position.
This is interesting.
Those politicos they call judges make a pretty good coin compared to the rest of the subjects.
As if that is not enough some of them want free pills, as though they actually participate in the corresponding activity.
Heh.
Two mistakes to avoid:
Mistake 1: The first mistake to avoid is to think that when Reid, Pelosi, Warren, and so on, say things like “It’s time that five men on the Supreme Court stop deciding what happens to women”, and “Supreme Court took an outrageous step against the rights of America’s women”, and “Can’t believe we live in a world where we’d even consider letting big corps deny women access to basic care based on vague moral objections”, they are making mistakes about the SCOTUS decision. Clearly, what they say is false. But they are not therefore making mistakes. To make a mistake requires that one be in the business of getting something right, but fail. The postmodern left are not in that business. For them, speaking, writing—all use of language—-, and even thought itself, are not means of discovering truth. They are weapons for the manipulation, coercion and control of others. Whenever they open their yaps, that is their purpose. Truth is not in them.
Mistake 2: The second mistake is to underestimate them. Their rhetoric is calculated and planned. It is calculated to produce enough “stray voltage” to get their base to the polls in November. And, in this case, it sets up the next step in their plans: single payer.
Elect sociopaths, expect to be ruled by sociopaths.
Thirteen lost 0-9 losses. It’s almost like Obama isn’t a constitutional law scholar or something.
Why does the general public have to cover the cost of contraception? I never understood it.
From National Revue…
Imagine that a woman starts work at Hobby Lobby tomorrow morning — July 1 (Today). She joins Hobby Lobby’s health care plan. It includes access, copay-free, to the following categories of FDA-approved birth-control:
Male condoms
Female condoms
Diaphragms with spermicide
Sponges with spermicide
Cervical caps with spermicide
Spermicide alone
Birth-control pills with estrogen and progestin (“Combined Pill)
Birth-control pills with progestin alone (“The Mini Pill)
Birth control pills (extended/continuous use)
Contraceptive patches
Contraceptive rings
Progestin injections
Implantable rods
Vasectomies
Female sterilization surgeries
Female sterilization implants
The thing wrong with this ruling is that it selects one companies owners as being “favoured”, the SCOTUS should have struck the whole damn lot from the health care plan, or they should forced every cost for any and all sport and recreation into the health care plan. It should be you play, you pay.
I recall an American scholar’s comment about the membership and behavior of the SCOTUS.
Lifetime appointment was intended to make the court non-partisan….a built in check and balance.
By being appointed for life and only capable of being dismissed by a majority of the SCOTUS itself….all Justices were beyond political influence.
Many Presidents, to their frustration, have appointed a buddy(s)to the SCOTUS to gain control of Scotus only to have these partisan appointees rule equitably…because they could, without consequence……sort of Thomas Becketts.
Until fairly recently it did function well.
After a hiatus, it seems that perhaps Kagan and Sontomyer, have reverted to pattern and have left the donkey plantation.
That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it…fer now.
Ummm…point of order: You can’t lose what you don’t have.
sasquatch:
By being appointed for life and only capable of being dismissed by a majority of the SCOTUS itself….all Justices were beyond political influence.
Um…no. Justices cannot be dismissed by a majority of SCOTUS. They can only be dismissed after being impeached by the House of Representatives for High Crimes or Misdemeanors and found guilty by a 2/3 vote of the Senate.
“Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”
BHO upon appointing Sotomayer.
You’re an order of magnitude off on the age of the Constitution.
If the president says it, that’s how it is. He’s the constitutional law scholar, or was he referring to principles recorded in the Bible?
I see your point but I also see lazy low-information voters and an approval rating going down the toilet.
Anything could happen I guess.
Globe and Mail, Tuesday, July 1. The ACLU declares white is black:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obamacare-ruling-lets-religious-employers-opt-out-from-contraception-coverage/article19389486/
“‘This is a deeply troubling decision,’ said Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. ‘Religious freedom is a fundamental right, but that freedom does not include the right to impose beliefs on others. In its ruling today, the court simply got it wrong.'”
Completely incorrect. It’s not Hobby Lobby that is imposing its belief on others, it’s the state that’s imposing its beliefs on Hobby Lobby, by forcing the company to act against its own beliefs. Any genuine advocate of civil liberties would understand that, but apparently the ACLU does not.
Sometimes the ACLU gets it right and sometimes wrong. But when you claim you’re the country’s premier organization that upholds civil liberties you should be getting it right 100% of the time.