Over the course of three hours Wednesday, the Supreme Court grappled with whether a law meant to keep Indigenous children with Native American families should be overturned as racist and unconstitutional, as critics charge.
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it empowers religious owners of companies to say, we have a religious objection to providing contraception as we require to do under aca, to the women employees here. so, the winners are the are the owners of the companies. but the losers are the women who don t get to have the contraception covered, as if they worked in any other business. the cases, they have big winners. but it is also important to point out they have losers, as well. just to clarify something for our viewers that you just said, that gay couples cannot be foster children in the state of pennsylvania. this relates to this catholic foster service, not more broadly. yes. i m glad you pointed that out. it s not all foster care agencies in pennsylvania, can t
deal with lgbt people. what it says is but many foster care agencies are affiliated with churches. and so, if they have a religious objection to same-sex couples, they can say no gay people need apply. that s the message of today s case. that s an important point. everyone stay with us. we have andy slavitt on the phone with us. andy, it s good to have you. let s switch back to the obamacare decision being upheld for a third time by the supreme court. your thoughts, the house thoughts this morning. i think it a 7-2 ruling by a conservative court, that says, you don t have standing, is, in effect, get this out of my court, once and for all. i think that s where this case belongs. people have been a whirlwind over the last ten years, being told to be nervous, that their
facilities that are receiving these children. i mean, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. so we re filing a lawsuit to stop the federal government from separating families, children from families, and second, we re asking the federal government in the interim with the mess you created, at least let the states help rather than having these foster care agencies with a gag order. all right. i want you to stand by, governor. there is more i need to discuss with you, including the breaking news on the u.s. supreme court decision ruling that the president s travel ban involving seven countries is constitutional. we ll discuss that and more right after a quick break.