down with president obama. the first thing he said was, i want you to feel very much at home here. that s awfully hard to i think turn away from. you can see the president was moved one thing you pointed out, so much of the popularity off the back with respect to his image and humility he conveys in every public appearance. sister prejean, one of the most contentious issues is what the president referred to, told us in the summary, quote, they talked about the rights of religious freedom and life and con shent shus objection. given the birth control mandate, how closely do you think the pope is watching that debate, specifically in the united states? do you think that s something that maybe at the specific level could have come up, this hobby lobby case and can businesses have religious rights? sure and the supreme court
that wasn t what does don verrilli say to that, yes, right? well, he s in a tough spot. he s smart enough not to say yes. he doesn t say yes, but he s in a tough spot. i want to just emphasize that chief justice john roberts who people thought might be neutral on this the way he was kind of trying to broker a deal in the eight cases. roberts came right out and said, yes, it s clear for their purposes by their beliefs this is being forced to provide an abortion. paul clement in his closing said the same thing. that s the impression you re left with, this is the slippery slope to think about. so, what does this mean for the next line of cases? one of the things if you take a step back here that i kind of have this sneaking suspicious, i don t want impute bad faith. let me say it does feel a little bit like you can t please these folks in this sense, right? in this case you have this for-profit corporation says we don t want to do this birth control mandate. coming up before the
is being forced to provide an abortion. paul clement in his closing said the same thing. that s the impression you re left with, this is the slippery slope to think about. so, what does this mean for the next line of cases? one of the things if you take a step back here that i kind of have this sneaking suspicious, i don t want impute bad faith. let me say it does feel a little bit like you can t please these folks in this sense, right? in this case you have this for-profit corporation says we don t want to do this birth control mandate. coming up before the court, you re going to have the little sisters of poor who have an accommodation under the law where they have to sign a form so they don t have to provide this birth control coverage. they re saying signing the form, itself, violates their religious liberty. it does feel a little bit like people have a problem with the law, or they have a problem with birth control more than they have the sort of abstract principle beliefs. mayb
is it the weather? it must be the basketball tournament. people don t have anything else to do, they re just killing time between the games, right? total obamacare enrollment has already topped 5 million and it s expected to top 6 million by the end of this month, march just a few days away. now, the numbers are the numbers. let me remind you, folks, that after the first month of obamacare enrollment, what were we looking at? what was that number? 106,000 people had signed up in the first 33 days of obamacare. now we re scratching 6 million and we have the same rhetoric coming from the republicans. they don t know what to say to somebody whose life is being changed because they re going to have health insurance. meanwhile, the supreme court, okay, we got to fight the legal battles, they re divided over obamacare s birth control mandate. justices began hearing arguments on tuesday on whether requiring
country s civil war. experts, including the director of the c.i.a., worry that these people could be radicalized and then recruited to carry out the attacks when they come west. how far does religious freedom upon which this country was built actually go? this is the question before the supreme court. as protesters on both sides of the obamacare birth control mandate make their voices heard. look at this from yesterday. let it snow! we won t go! boxes in the bathroom got to go! inside the courtroom, the battle just as heeded as it was outdoors. the justices appear to be split so far. early reports seem to indicate that the court may reject the birth control mandate and side with hobby lobby. a decision is expected by the educational end of june. a ground break ruling allow ago school district in new jersey to sue students who bully their classmates.