Posted on 05/18/2020 5:14:29 PM PDT by marshmallow
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a California church could challenge the state mandate to pay for elective abortion through the church’s health insurance plan. Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented Skyline Wesleyan Church in the San Diego area, reports that the case was returned to the district court after the Ninth Circuit found the case had been improperly dismissed.
The opinion issued by the Ninth Circuit states:
We hold that Skyline has suffered an injury in fact. Before the Letters were sent, Skyline had insurance that excluded abortion coverage in a way that was consistent with its religious beliefs. After the Letters were sent, Skyline did not have that coverage, and it has presented evidence that its new coverage violated its religious beliefs. There is nothing hypothetical about the situation.
Other California churches have fought the mandate to pay for elective abortions through their health insurance plans.
“Churches should be free to follow their beliefs without unlawful, unjust government mandates,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jeremiah Galus, who represented Skyline, following Wednesday’s ruling. “The Department of Managed Health Care shouldn’t be forcing churches to pay for elective abortions. The agency has unconstitutionally targeted religious organizations, repeatedly collaborated with pro-abortion advocates, and failed to follow the appropriate administrative procedures to implement its abortion-coverage requirement. The Ninth Circuit rightly recognized the harm that the state has inflicted on Skyline Church in subjecting it to this unprecedented mandate.”
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Trump’s making the ninth circuit great again
Ten Trump judges making a difference!
Yup.
All those Trump appointments to the 9th are starting to pay off.
It’s now
Dems 16
Republicans 13
yes?
Agreed. This decision is only because President Trump replaced criminal, leftist, activist judges with Constitutional scholars who support the rights of the people.
JoMa
Correct.
Keep it in mind and tell everyone you know, when you vote for the president on election day, you are primarily voting for the person who selects the judges and the flag officers. This is a matter of life and death.
It almost seems as though the Ninth circus has become close to 50-50 on getting decent results...
How can ANY woman kill her own baby? How can any husband sanction that?
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Cathy Ann Bencivengo [Obama judge, 90-6], District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted November 4, 2019 Pasadena, California Filed May 13, 2020 Before: Mary M. Schroeder [Carter judge] and Michelle T. Friedland [Obama judge, 51–40], Circuit Judges, and Lee H. Rosenthal [GHW Bush judge], District Judge*. Opinion by Judge Friedland _____________________________________________________ * The Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal, Chief United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting by designation
Unsuprisingly, there was an 0bama district "judge" at the root of the case that needed to be slapped down.
I'm thinking that the presence of all those Ninth Circuit Trump judges and the new Trump judges on the Supreme Court is getting peoples' minds right, though.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Cathy Ann Bencivengo [Obama judge, 90-6], District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted November 4, 2019 Pasadena, California Filed May 13, 2020 Before: Mary M. Schroeder [Carter judge] and Michelle T. Friedland [Obama judge, 51–40], Circuit Judges, and Lee H. Rosenthal [GHW Bush judge], District Judge*. Opinion by Judge Friedland _____________________________________________________ * The Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal, Chief United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting by designation
Thank you.
Things seem to be moving in the right direction.
Interesting times.
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