Supreme Court Argument Sebelius v Hobby Lobby Stores Audio

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Supreme Court Argument Audio Sebelius v Hobby Lobby Stores • Supreme Court Argument Audio Sebelius v Hobby Lobby Stores • Supreme Court Argument Audio Sebelius v Hobby Lobby Stores • Under the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) companies are required to provide health care to employees or face a fine/tax. These plans are required to supply free or low cost birth control. Can the government force a company to provide these plans (or pay a fine) if the company objects on religious grounds? • 1st Amendment. First Amendment. Supreme Court of the United States of America. Barack Obama. ObamaCare. ACA. Religion. Abortion. Kathleen Sebelius. Healthcare. Birth Control. • • Transcript: • http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argu... • • Tuesday, March 25, 2014 The above entitled matter came on for oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States • at 10:11 a.m. • APPEARANCES: • PAUL D. CLEMENT, ESQ., Washington, D.C.; on behalf • of the Private Parties. • DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR., ESQ., Solicitor General, • Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; on behalf of • the Federal Government. • CONTENTS • ORAL ARGUMENT OF PAGE PAUL D. CLEMENT, ESQ. • On behalf of the Private Parties 4 ORAL ARGUMENT OF • DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR., ESQ. • On behalf of the Federal Government 41 REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF • PAUL D. CLEMENT, ESQ. • On behalf of the Private Parties 83 • PROCEEDINGS (10:11 a.m.) • CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: We'll hear argument this morning in consolidated cases Number 13354, Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Hobby Lobby Stores; and 13356, Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation v. Sebelius. • Mr. Clement. • ORAL ARGUMENT OF PAUL D. CLEMENT • ON BEHALF OF THE PRIVATE PARTIES • MR. CLEMENT: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: • When a Federal Government agency compelled employers to provide something as religiously sensitive as contraception, it knew that free exercise in RFRA claims would soon follow. In particular, the agency itself provided exemptions and accommodations for the religious exercise of a subset • JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Is your claim limited to sensitive materials like contraceptives or does it include items like blood transfusion, vaccines? For some religions, products made of pork? Is any claim under your theory that has a religious basis, could an employer preclude the use of those items as well? ...

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