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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Reich: SCOTUS is oblivious to the rights of American workers
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/03/robert_reich_scotus_is_oblivious_to_the_rights_of_american_workers_partner/On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations dont have to offer their employees contraceptive coverage that conflicts with the corporate owners religious beliefs.
The owners of Hobby Lobby, the plaintiffs in the case, were always free to practice their religion. The Court bestowed religious freedom on their corporation as well a leap of logic as absurd as giving corporations freedom of speech. Corporations arent people.
The deeper problem is the Courts obliviousness to the growing imbalance of economic power between corporations and real people. By giving companies the right not offer employees contraceptive services otherwise mandated by law, the Court ignored the rights of employees to receive those services.
(Justice Alitos suggestion that those services could be provided directly by the federal government is as politically likely as is a single-payer federal health-insurance plan which presumably would be necessary to supply such contraceptives or any other Obamacare service corporations refuse to offer on religious grounds.)
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Robert Reich: SCOTUS is oblivious to the rights of American workers (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2014
OP
I don't think "oblivious" is the accurate word. "Unconcerned" might be more accurate. nt
ladjf
Jul 2014
#1
I wouldn't argue with your point. We've got a terrible cabal of rightwingnuts on the
ladjf
Jul 2014
#4
ladjf
(17,320 posts)1. I don't think "oblivious" is the accurate word. "Unconcerned" might be more accurate. nt
MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)3. Still too nice a word
"Contemptuous" is probably closer.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)4. I wouldn't argue with your point. We've got a terrible cabal of rightwingnuts on the
Supreme Court.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)8. Or "actively trying to destroy" nt
rock
(13,218 posts)2. "SCOTUS is oblivious to the rights of Americans ..."
Stop right there!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)5. Alito’s saying, 'Let them eat cake.' After they made it from scratch at home, of course...
Uncle Joe
(58,365 posts)6. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, xchrom.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)7. Run, Reich, Run!