whatsoever to go with obama s law. none. he is an employee of our country. he is a public service employee. correct? what is his constitutional obligation? what has he not carried out? he turned everything down. we have a humanitarian crisis at the border. who s fault is that? obama. do you believe that ann coulter mentioned the fact that when she was on the judiciary committee she wasn t on the judiciary committee when she worked for the judiciary committee, 4% were deported. this is an issue that is going on for decades. republicans keep turning things down because republicans want prioritize border security. every time they come to the table and say border security first, democrats say, no, sorry. we want a comprehensive package. you don t get a comprehensive package until we sol the problem of border security otherwise this is going to happen over and over again. it s about the hobby lobby
cannot deny people access to water. facebook psychology experiment on its own users are coming back to haunt them. should a consumer be concerned about this? right now, on all in. good evening, from new york. i m chris hayes. a deeply divided supreme court today found a heretofore unrecognized right to the exercise of religious conscience by for-profit corporations. writing for the all male a-4 majority, justice samuel alito ruled private for-profit corporations, the hobby lobby craft chain owned by evangelical christians and mennonites can opt out of paying for the kind of insurance coverage that would provide all fda approved methods of contraception for female flows. four specific methods of birth control those objected to do not terminate pregnynysys.
together. the legal opinion, you re wrong on that. , no i m not. person includes corporations. the supreme court looked at the statute and they said that there was a compelling state interest to give away, to make this company buy these abortive fashions. but at the same time, it was wrong that they couldn t impose their will on the owners of this company. and so 5-4 they decided and said, yeah, religion does count. would it count in general motors? it doesn t in this case. you re saying the statute says that. does that apply to general motors? they didn t ask that. i m showing his example and showing where that doesn t hold up. if you put this thin membrane between the owners of this corporation because it s a one family and a close corporation, does that not koupt? sean, when i read the decision, i thought to myself, aa(ápunbelievable that only five
this company was facing half a billion dollars in fines. were they substantially burdened in the free exercise of religion? you have to agree this family answer that question. were they substantially burdened? were they substantially burdened as a corporation, they would have been. wait. wait. wait. did the founders care about that burden? that s not the argument. the argument is, and you know it, there s a statute that says this is against the law. why? the supreme court said, yes, you re right. this is against the law. why is it that strict constitutionalists always want to ignore the constitution when it doesn t work for them? i wish we had more time. we re out of time. no, we just got started! we could do this all night. so easy to go to gm.
quickly and authority to send them back home quickly. 2008 law allows kids to be quickly deported if they re from mexico but not if they re from central america. joining me with more on the monumental supreme court decision in favor of the company hobby lobby and against obamacare, we have senior counsel, hannah smith is us with. and from the american center for law and justice, jay seculo. let s get reaction. a big victory. by any objective measure for religious freedom today? it was a great day. both for hobby lobby, for the beckett fund and religious freedom. well, explain why in your opinion, look, a-4 decision is still a 5-4 decision, very close. the arguments of the majority were solid. that is your religious freedom doesn t end just because you re part of a corporation. well, that s exactly right. and the majority opinion written by justice alito joined by the four conservative justices said that just because a family opens up a business, they don t lose