Burwell. The Little Sisters of the poor and their copetitioners faced a dilemma that the religious freedom restoration act is not allowed. They can in here to their religious beliefs and pay millions of dollars in taketies, or, they can steps that they believed to be are morally and religiously objectionable, that the government believes it is necessary for them to provide contraception coverage through their Health Care Plans. Thegovernment concedes sincerity of these religious beliefs, but attempts to recast them as an objection to the very act of opting out. With all due respect, that is simply and demonstrably not true. Can you explain to me, the many of them felt that general believe they were pacifists, that if they pacifists, that would mean other people would serve for them. They were going to jail and many of them were going to jail. Jail lessng to important to some . Or less important than paying a financial penalty . I dont think it is, but let me sick to the Conscientious O
Of money. Do you think pension advances should be regulated like those products for people who really need the money . Some sort of Interest Rate cap . I mean, are we making a mistake by outlawing these as opposed to just making them behave like moral human beings . That would be a good start. I think that the, first of all, you have to distinguish between the payday lenders and the other products, prid tory products out there. What is unique about these pension advance companies, and it was a great surprise to us was that they are much smaller in size. Many of the other predatory lenders are now, you know, publiclyheld companies, and it these were pretty much dimly capitalized corporations that had no skin in the game. What we found out with each of these entities was that they only loaned out what they were able to get in from investors. So the individuals who were running the show. It was like a bookie, just take being the big. Just taking the big. I dont know how i knew that word.
Cspans landmark cases series continues next monday. Dred scott was enslaved by u. S. Army surgeon dr. John emerson. After dr. Emerson died, mr. Scott tried unsuccessfully to win freedom for himself and his family because he argued they had lived in illinois and the wisconsin territory for four years. Where slavery was illegal. Well look back at the scott versus sandford case which was decided by the Supreme Court in 1857. Thats live next monday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan3. You can learn more about the landmark cases series which explores the human stories and constitutional dramas0÷mq behi some of the Supreme Courts most significant decisions. Go to cspan. Org landmark cases and from the website, find cspans landmark cases book with highlights, background and legal impact of each case written by tony mauro and published by cspan with cq press. Landmark cases is available 8. 95 plus shipping at cspan. Org landmarkcases. Coming up next, more on the Supreme Court with the
Reaching 4 million last week. Thats the highest level since august 2014. The box office awakens. The latest star wars movie breaks all sort of records as it opens to fans in the United States and europe. Oh yes were all looking forward to the force awangs this weekend. Lets check in on u. S. Futures and u. S. Markets first off. Breaking that winning streak on thursday. So we are below fair value so looks like we are opening lower. The s p 500 could be down four points at the open. The Dow Jones Industrials being called down triple digits at this point. Lower than the nasdaq and looking at declienes of 31. Its a sea of red. Modest at this point. Lets call the ftse 100 flat. The cac 40 up by plt 5 but this is on from the session in asia last night and really some confusion over the bank of japan. The boj expanding its asset purchases which includes new Exchange Rate of funds and longer duration bonds. So the etf buying program will start in april but in a press conference just to clarify
Front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official retaliati retaliation. The other form is just when your peers in the unit kind of find out whats happened or what allegedly happened and they take sides and maybe they treat you differently or maybe people who are your friends now shun you. Ill call that unofficial retaliation. Our piggest problem is on that unofficial part, people who rush to swrujudgment to and take si who is going to replace dr. La plant as acquisition czar . Rich lombardi is now in the acting capacity. Thats dr. La plants deputy, who has floeeted up to the actig role. Beyond that well have to