In a piece for the Washington Post’s Plum Line blog, opinion columnist Paul Waldman offers a few rather disorienting comments on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, et al.
The case dealt with whether the Trump administration had the authority to grant religious and moral exemptions to employers who object to covering contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs in their health-insurance plans, as Obamacare’s HHS mandate requires. One such employer is the Little Sisters, a group of Catholic nuns who serve the elderly, sick, and dying poor.
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