THWACK! – Supreme Court Shoots Down GOP Backed Liberty Counsel Lawsuit Over Obamacare.
by Will Kohler
THWACK!
Look out Hobby Lobby because this does not bode well for you.
Today
the Supreme Court refused to hear an attempt to overturn a key part of
the Obama administration’s health care law by the heavily GOP backed
extremist right wing hate group The Liberty Counsel
The
justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a federal appeals
court ruling dismissing Liberty University’s lawsuit. Liberty made
several arguments in challenging the portion of the health care law that
requires most employers to provide health insurance to their workers or
pay a fine. The 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Richmond, Va., rejected
those claims.
Said Mat Staver the head the LC:
"Deciding
the case would have highlighted the absurdity of the Supreme Court’s
convoluted decision upholding the individual mandate as a tax.
Apparently the court was not willing right now to venture back into that
morass. We will wait on the court’s ruling next year to decide whether
to file a new challenge. It is possible the high court could side-step
the HHS abortion mandate issue by deciding that for-profit corporations
do not have free exercise of religion rights. I hope the court will
decide the issue and strike down this most egregious trampling of the
free exercise of religion."
You can view the l;awsuit here.
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