USA Today to Obama admin: leave Little Sisters alone

cna ^ | January 14, 2014

[NYer]

Little Sisters of the Poor. Courtesy of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Washington D.C., Jan 14, 2014 / 04:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The editors of USA Today have urged the Obama administration to stop trying to require the Little Sisters of the Poor to abide by the federal contraception mandate in violation of their religious beliefs.

[stevem]

The Little Sisters of the Poor have worked for 175 years to care for the low-income elderly and dying in communities throughout the U.S.

When you are Caligula II, why should this make the tiniest difference?

[OneWingedShark]

But precedent is the bedrock of the entire legal system - going back to the days of the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons. And if you despise legal precedent, what on earth are you going to set up in its place?

Precedent, in itself is not so bad; the problem really is when it is elevated to the same level as Constitutionality.
That is what I despise about precedent: it is used as a tool to keep legitimate Constitutional arguments from taking place.

See Gonzales v. Raich, wherein the USSC declared that non-commerce can be regulated by congress;
which itself is built on the precedent of Wickard v. Filburn, wherein the USSC declared that intrastate commerce could be regulated by congress "because it has an impact on interstate commerce".

[RetiredTexasVet]

His Arrogance’s war on Little Sisters of the Poor!!!

[Salvation]

Obama has clearly stepped over the line!

[informavoracious]

Wait for it...Obama will pipe up and say he didn’t know anything about it.

[Coleus]

Gannett owns the CNA?

[Salvation]

Here’s what the webpage says at the bottom

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Nothing about Gannett

[CorporateStepsister]

Even Clinton for his buffoonery respected nuns and left them alone to go about their business.

[SumProVita]

LEGAL PRECEDENT has turned Tennessee into a destination state for abortion (presently ranked #5 in the nation as a “go to” state for abortion) and blocked us from regulating abortion...but hopefully not for long as we are going to amend our state constitution to kill that particular legal precedent.

Please pray that we are successful.

[fatima]

How do you know?

[AnAmericanMother]

That actually is not correct either.

Constitutional issues always trump precedent. Happens all the time. E.g. Heller v. D.C.

[AnAmericanMother]

Your problem there is listening to the Usual Idiots on TV and expecting them to know anything about the law.

They're wrong, of course. And they probably know they're wrong, just lying for 'their guy'. Or else they're idiots. Pick 'em.

[OneWingedShark]

That actually is not correct either.
Constitutional issues always trump precedent. Happens all the time. E.g. Heller v. D.C.

Then please explain Raich, wherein non-commerce was considered within the purview of Congress's "commerce clause" with the 'extension' of the "necessary and proper" clause.
Please explain Kelo, where imagining numbers from private redevelopment is considered filling the "public use".
Please explain how a "right to privacy" applies between patient and doctor to allow the striking down of state abortion laws — but doesn't apply in the case of the government domestically spying on its citizens (NSA), or even between patient and doctor in general (electronic medical record requirements of the ACA).

The fact of the legal matter is that the Supreme Court can pull whatever it wants out of its ass — see the ACA ruling, for example.
The rest of the Judiciary does the same: they build up their case to support what they've decided beforehand.