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applegrove

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Fri Jul 4, 2014, 09:30 PM Jul 2014

"Supreme Court women lash out at birth control decision"

Supreme Court women lash out at birth control decision

By Bill Mears and Tom Cohen, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/04/politics/supreme-court-women/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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Coming after the Hobby Lobby decision, narrowly defined to the specifics of cases involving two businesses run by families with strong Christian beliefs, the Wheaton ruling rankled the three liberal women justices.

Their unusually strident dissent written by Sotomayor said the Wheaton injunction threatened the credibility of the Hobby Lobby decision.

"Those who are bound by our decisions usually believe they can take us at our word," Sotomayor wrote. "Not so today."

The point of the dissent? "It is not the business of this court to ensnare itself in the government's ministerial handling of its affairs in the manner it does here," Sotomayor wrote.





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"Supreme Court women lash out at birth control decision" (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2014 OP
Women "lash out," write "strident" dissent... Gormy Cuss Jul 2014 #1
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