Speaker 1: A ten year saga thankfully come to a close. That's
Speaker 1: how long the Little Sisters of the Poor Nuns have
Speaker 1: been fighting Obamacare's mandate to provide contraception in their health
Speaker 1: care plans. It goes against their Catholic faith. So finally,
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld President Trump's executive order
Speaker 1: exempting the nuns from Obama's mandate. For one fifty years,
Speaker 1: Little Sisters of the Poor Nuns have run homes serving
Speaker 1: elderly people in poverty. The Democrats who passed Obamacare refused
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that is a religious order. The Little Sisters
Speaker 1: could not be forced to provide services that violate their
Speaker 1: religious beliefs. Writing the majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said
Speaker 1: the Trump administration had the authority to provide exceptions for
Speaker 1: religious and conscientious objections. He said the statute in plain
Speaker 1: language allowed the administration to make religious and moral exemptions.
Speaker 1: Now this decision, it was even close. It was seven
Speaker 1: to two. Only the leftist justices Innsbergen Soto Mayor dissented.
Speaker 1: They're mad at the Court's zeal to secure religious rights
Speaker 1: to the nth degree, but they're really mad at the
Speaker 1: first Amendment, which states that Congress cannot make laws that
Speaker 1: infringe on religious freedoms. The right thing was done here,
Speaker 1: even though it took ten years. It's clear to anybody
Speaker 1: who respects the Constitution that Obama never had the power
Speaker 1: to impose this mandate in the first place.