[TheWastelander]

(06-30-2014 04:58 PM)Jeans Wrote:  

(06-30-2014 03:49 PM)TheWastelander Wrote:  

Unfunny thing about the case: the Supreme Court almost ruled that regulatory law churned out by the executive branch trumps laws passed by congress and constitutional rights.

Four justices actually supported that.

the affordable care act, like any piece of legislation, passed the house and the senate before being signed into law by the executive.

and actually, obama initially was very hands off in the creation of this law. initially, he told congress he wanted health care reform and left it up to them to figure it out, contra the clinton administration who tried to do it behind closed doors until that blew up in their face.

The ACA passed the house and senate in part because it didn't include this contraceptive mandate. You will not find the language anywhere in the bills passed by Congress.

The administration (and more specifically Health and Human Services) came up with it.

http://executivebranchproject.com/kenned...bby-lobby/

Quote:

Congress did not impose the contraception mandate on employers; the administration did. The Affordable Care Act directs large employers only to provide employees the opportunity to enroll in “minimum essential coverage,” pursuant to HHS’s implementation of the act. And so, with Solicitor General Donald Verrilli at the podium, Kennedy stressed the fact that this collision between Obama-care and religious liberty arose not because the statute itself forced HHS’s hand, but because HHS itself had used a vague statute to force the constitutional issue: