By Andrew Malcolm
Here’s an encouraging update on the
nationwide legal challenges to ObamaCare by religious institutions that
will be forced to provide insurance coverage for such things as abortion
drugs, birth control and sterilizations that violate their beliefs.
This story is a week old, actually.
Strangely, you haven’t seen any real coverage of this development in
mainstream media, perhaps because it concerns a crucial legal setback
for Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius in a New York federal court.
As is Eric Holder’s style when his Justice
Department is challenged, he attempts not to argue the typically weak
legal issues he has but to challenge the standing or timing of the
challengers. That’s worked in some of the 42 religious lawsuits filed
over ObamaCare’s pending implementation that the churches say violate
their constitutional protections for religious freedom.
But that strategy did not work in the
Eastern District Federal Courtroom of Judge Brian Cogan. For the first
time, a federal judge allowed this constitutional challenge of ObamaCare
to proceed.
The Obama administration had sought to have
the case by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York thrown out
because of its so-called “temporary safe harbor” provision.
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