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Law & the Courts

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—January 13

2019—Federal district judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. enters an order (in California v. HHS) blocking the Trump administration from implementing its rules creating a religious and moral exemption to the HHS contraceptive mandate.

A year and a half later, in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court will rule by a 7-2 vote that the Trump administration had authority to promulgate the rules.

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