The Supreme Court handed the Obama Administration yet another defeat today:
1. For-profit corporations are persons protected under RFRA. (Pp. 16-20.)
2. Closely held for-profit corporations are capable of engaging in an exercise of religion protected by RFRA. (It “seems unlikely” that publicly traded corporations would “often” assert RFRA claims, but no need to decide whether they can.) (Pp. 20-31.)
3. The HHS mandate substantially burdens the exercise of religion by the Hahns, the Greens, and their companies
Given the ferocity with which Nancy Pelosi fought for the ObamaCare language that enabled Obama’s HHS to impose the abortion mandate, I think this really is a stinging defeat for the left. No, you can’t have an abortion mandate. Not yours.
Note that the text of the ruling “is based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and not the First Amendment. (In other words, this is a statutory decision, not a constitutional one.)”
And for the Obama Administration:
