From Afar, Supreme Court Hears ACA Mandate Exemption Rules Challenge

Mealey's (May 6, 2020, 2:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 6 heard telephonic oral arguments over whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and federal law protecting religious beliefs permit rules providing religious and moral objectors exemptions from the statute’s contraceptive mandate, whether the government properly formulated the rules and whether a district court can issue a nationwide injunction blocking the rules (Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, et al., Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Pennsylvania, Nos. 19-431, 19-454, U.S. Sup.)....