Subject: FW: RELEASE: Kelly Ayotte’s Supreme Court Blockade Threatens Access to Birth Control
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 08:04:52 -0700

From: Melissa Miller [mailto:press=[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Melissa Miller
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Subject: RELEASE: Kelly Ayotte’s Supreme Court Blockade Threatens Access to Birth Control

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 17, 2016
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RELEASE: Kelly Ayotte’s Supreme Court Blockade Threatens Access to Birth Control
Concord, N.H. -- Yesterday, the Supreme Court failed to reach a decision for the second time since Kelly Ayotte and her fellow Senate Republicans have been obstructing the confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice--this time on a case that threatens to make birth control more difficult and expensive to access.
Rather than standing up for contraception access and affirming the accommodation the Obama administration has already worked out to ensure employees of religiously-affiliated nonprofits are able to receive contraception coverage, the divided court punted and sent the suit back to lower courts to craft a compromise.
The New York Times Editorial Board<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=9fec15f84c&e=aac58c81e5> wrote of the lack of a decision:
This move solves nothing. Even if these plaintiffs can find their way to an agreement with the government that satisfies their religious objections, there are other employers with different religious beliefs who will not be satisfied, and more lawsuits are sure to follow.
The court could have avoided this by affirming the appellate decisions that correctly ruled in the government’s favor. Unfortunately, the justices appear to be evenly split on this issue, as they may be on other significant cases pending before them.
The court’s job is not to propose complicated compromises for individual litigants; it is to provide the final word in interpreting the Constitution and the nation’s laws. Despite what Senate Republicans may say about the lack of harm in the delay in filling the vacancy, the court cannot do its job without a full bench.
“Ayotte's decision to side with her DC party leaders and corporate special interests over our justice system has now led to a second case left undecided by the Supreme Court with the potential to make it more expensive and difficult for women across the United States to access birth control,” said New Hampshire Democratic Party Press Secretary Melissa Miller. “The Supreme Court can’t do its job when Senators don’t do theirs, and New Hampshire women deserve a Senator who will do her job and protect access to birth control.”
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