Invent religious objections to get out of paying for health care for their employees. right. jodi, i want to talk about sort of broader legal strategy here, because again, hobby lobby and little sisters both actually brought forward by the beckett fund for religious liberty. we know this is part of a strategy of a myriad of cases, frankly, around the country with the goal of getting to the supreme court weather the goal of not just undermining the affordable care act but really going after access to birth control for women. yes. so you have 80-odd cases out there that are both corporate and nonprofit. they re all joined at the hip with this, you know, very specific strategy aimed at reproductive health care per se, although, again, going back to yours and spencer s discussion, if they were to succeed in this you d have the ability of corporate actors, corporations to determine what their employees could do in their
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found it to be wildly unconstitutional. nice try. you get an f because we got you. a new battle ahead for obamacare over the birth-control mandate. the justice department has asked the supreme court not to allow religiously affiliated groups a temporary exemption. why has the full weight of the justice department come down on the little sisters of the poor? all the nuns would have to do to get out of the birth-control mandate is to sign a form. we re just a few days into the new year and already the war on women is heating up in our nation s highest court as we await a key decision from justice sonia sotomayor. at issue, whether signing a form puts a substantial burden on religious liberty. in this case, a nonprofit religious organization is challenging the affordable care act s contraception mandate. if you followed the debate last year you ll recall religious nonprofits like the little sisters of the poor are already exempt from the requirement to provide heal
0 bipartisanship. joining me now to discuss what we can expect in the weeks ahead, kate nasara, congressional reporter for buzz feed. john nichols, washington correspondent for the nation. thanks to you both for joining me. thank you. good to be here. kate, i want to start with you. one of the things that s interesting about how this vote is going to go down in the senate is when you look at the gop senators who are facing primaries in 2014, particularly the tea party challengers, they seem to be not in favor. they made a point of coming out early and often to express their displeasure. right. exactly. and so what these tea party challengers are doing are pushing these senators who might otherwise agree for a bipartisan compromise to the right. i still think it will pass. i actually even think some of the senators might vote for a simple majority could get the budget passed. you know, john, what this bodes in terms of the future is we have a very real chance of a debt cei
rape is rape, period, end of story. congressman ryan would not discuss his cosponsorship of a bill with akin that originally had language limiting federal funding to cases of forcible rape. you sponsored legislation that has the language forcible rape. what is forcible rape? rape is rape, period. end of story. so that forcible rape language meant nothing to you at the time? rape is rape. there s no splitting hairs over rape. nbc s ron mot is with ryan in north carolina. so ron, obviously, the congressman trying to distance himself from akin and the problem that this is now for the romney campaign. what s the latest from there? hey there tamron. it s going to be hard for ryan to distance himself from that vote on ho-3 which is a bill akin and a lot of other republicans supported that would have restricted abortions in almost every case. the language about forcible rape, the provision allowable for abortion. we asked about that on the plane ride down here to ralei