Did the Obama Administration just outsmart the Supreme Court?

This is a question that many of us will differ on but let me lay it out basing it on the many different decisions made by the majority on the Supreme Court and you can make up your own mind.

In case many of you think that I might want to make up these things, I am going to use the information provided by the article titled “Obama Administration Calls the Supreme Court’s Bluff In Hobby Lobby” written by Ian Millhiser for ThinkProgress.  In this manner, you still may not believe but at least you will have plenty of other choices to find out more to better inform your decision, perhaps.  Let’s start at nearly the beginning.

, “For most of the last year, the Supreme Court has forced the Obama Administration into an elaborate dance, where the Court hands down orders casting doubt upon the administration’s efforts to ensure that all women have access to affordable birth control — while simultaneously implying that everything would be fine if the administration just designed their birth control policy a different way. Religious non-profits who object to birth control could exempt themselves from the requirement to offer contraceptive care to their employees by filling out a specific form that informs the government of their objection, and sending a copy of the form to their insurance provider or administrator.  These non-profit rules spawned one round of litigation brought by religious non-profit organizations which claim that even being required to fill out a short form violates their religious liberty.’ “Prior to the Supreme Court’s June decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which significantly reworked the balance of power between employers and employees, the law was clear that for-profit businesses could not invoke their owners’ religious beliefs to exempt themselves from their legal obligations to their workers. “When followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice,” the Court held in its 1982 decision in United States v. Lee.  Hobby Lobby, of course, was the culmination of a second round of litigation brought by for-profit employers whose owners have religious objections to birth control. And it effectively eliminated the protections Lee extended to workers, at least with respect to federal law.  The Hobby Lobby opinion granted many for-profit employers a religious exemption from the birth control rules, but it also strongly implied that everything would be fine if the Obama Administration had only applied the same regime it applies to non-profit employers to for-profit employers as well. That is, all would be good if, instead of requiring Hobby Lobby to offer birth control coverage directly, Hobby Lobby should instead fill out a form and send a copy of it to their insurer, and then that insurer would provide coverage to Hobby Lobby’s workers.  Only a few days later, however, the Court handed down another order suggesting that the fill-out-a-form solution wasn't actually a solution at all. In Wheaton College v. Burwell, the justices granted a Christian college a temporary exemption from the requirement than they fill out the form — once again holding that the college could simply “inform the Secretary of Health and Human Services in writing” that they wish to invoke the exemption.”  “According to the Wall Street Journal, the new regulations provide that “institutions would have to tell the federal government which company administers their health-insurance plan, and the government would then contact that administrator to ask it to arrange contraception coverage for the institution’s employees. The administrator would likely turn to a traditional insurance company to fund the benefits, and the insurance company would later be reimbursed by the federal government.”

Now here is the question, with these new regulations being put out by the Obama Administration, seemingly to answer all of the issues posed by those non-profit and for-profit companies who claim “religious liberty”, what will the majority on the Supreme Court do now?  After the decision by this court was made known and televised all over this nation, many people thought the Obama Administration would just roll over but come Friday, they should learn that this administration never rolls over.  It make just have beaten all those who think that women cannot think for themselves or make their own decisions and those who think differently than they do not deserve a voice nor do we deserve a say in how our government is ran, even those who sits on the highest court in the land.

This action may also send us another well-deserved lesson about this administration, in that if there is a will, there is always a way.  Anytime you think that they are beaten, they only re-group and come back stronger.  The only thing we need to do now is make sure that when it comes to the type of government we want, make sure that the Obama Administration feels as strongly on this as we do.  I love the fact that there is a never say die attitude among those within the White House now and that they take the time to carefully think, plan and coordinate before their secondary actions.  For years, America has been dying for a president who will consider all options before choosing and not just shoot from the hip, now that we have one, why are no more people working with him?  For all those who think that all presidents are easy to rattle, control and bully, you might have just picked on the wrong one.