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The Supreme Court Thinks That Corporations Are People but Women Aren't
As far as the Supreme Court is concerned, we're still in the 19th century when it comes to women's rights. In a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court today ruled that for-profit corporations like Hobby Lobby can discriminate against their female employees by denying them birth control coverage as required under Obamacare as long as those corporations believe that doing so "violates" their religious beliefs.
According to the Court, "closely-held" corporations like Hobby Lobby are protected by a 1993 law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - a law that protects people - let me repeat, PEOPLE, as in homo sapiens sapiens - from having "substantial burdens" placed on their religious beliefs.
There are a lot of things to talk about when it comes to the Hobby Lobby case - the fact that Hobby Lobby's arguments weren't based in scientific fact, the fact that Hobby Lobby actually invests in companies that make the very same birth control it says goes against its religious beliefs, the fact that it's more than ready to pay for male birth control procedures like vasectomies, the fact that much of what they sell comes from China, the home of forced abortions - you name it.
All of these things are important and show just how insane and fundamentally hypocritical the Court's decision really was. But in the end, the most damning thing of all about today's ruling is that it shows that one branch of our government, the Supreme Court, believes that the "rights" of non-breathing, definitely-not-alive corporations trump the rights of the 51 percent of the population which has a uterus.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Courts Again Say Corporations are People - Women Are Not (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Need to Know: Courts Again Say Corporations are People - Women Are Not- Gretchen Borchelt, National Women's Law Center (NWLC) 
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The Hobby Lobby Case- Siobhan "Sam" Bennett, Political Strategist / Author...forthcoming book, Ascend
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Hour Two: Supreme Court decisions - Hobby Lobby and Unions, and judicial review Article: " Federalist No. 81" (The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority) by Alexander Hamilton. Article: " Federalist No. 83" by Alexander Hamilton (The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury). Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson. Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
Hour Three: Supreme Court decisions - Hobby Lobby and Unions, and judicial review Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 1. " The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish" Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8. " To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 6 section 2. " ... This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby ..." Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 4 section 2. " No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due." |
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