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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan scotus decisions be declared unconstitutional?
Seeing as how it was so obviously based on religion?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Can't they?
Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)dgibby
(9,474 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)(The Religious Freedom Restoration Act) was the basis of the decision.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)amandabeech
(9,893 posts)The Supreme Court is reluctant to do so, however. The Court could also chip away at it by distinguishing similar cases from Hobby Lobby as presenting somewhat different circumstances, just as they've chipped away at Roe v. Wade, for instance.
It would be unlikely that this Court would do anything with Hobby Lobby, though. It would more likely happen over the course of at least 10-20 years and a different group of justices.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Highly unlikely, though.
This is the law of the land until the RFRA is altered or a conservative judge or two leaves the court for whatever reason and the liberals decide to be as activist as the Roberts Court has been.
Again, highly unlikely.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Future courts can overturn decisions. In other words, they recognize that they are not infallible "law-givers".
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)The Supreme Court even mentioned in the decision that there are ways congress can provide the contraception. The court's problem is the government forcing a private corporation to provide it.
If the Congress votes to provide it...that's constitutional.
This is why single payer should have been the goal in 2009 instead of this ACA which maintains the employer-driven health system.
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Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)These guys are so transparent in their brutality that I wonder who they think they're fooling.
Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)just as the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution made invalid the infamous Dred Scott decision .
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)Scalia has been senile for a while and Kennedy should retire soon. I am worried about Ginsberg. Hillary Clinton needs to win 2016 if we do not want to see Roe. v. Wade overturned
chrisstopher
(152 posts)badtoworse
(5,957 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)No Supreme Court reversal is necessary.