Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Monday sharply criticized the Supreme Court decision ruling that “closely held” corporations do not need to cover contraception as mandated by the health care law.
It’s time that five men on the Supreme Court stop deciding what happens to women.
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) June 30, 2014
“Today’s decision jeopardizes women’s access to essential health care. Employers have no business intruding in the private health care decisions women make with their doctors. This ruling ignores the scientific evidence showing that the health security of millions of American women is strengthened by access to these crucial services,” Reid said in a statement. “If the Supreme Court will not protect women’s access to health care, then Democrats will. We will continue to fight to preserve women’s access to contraceptive coverage and keep bosses out of the examination room.”
Harry, it’s time to tell the senator from the great state of Vermont that he needs to get off the dime and move ALL the fed court nominees through - blue slip or no blue slip.
YES. Democrats must make this point over and over and over. This should become a cornerstone of the 2014 campaign. God knows most voters won’t get the point otherwise.
You tell 'em, Harry! And get all your fellow Senators to do the same. This needs to become a standard Democratic meme. And maybe, just maybe, the media might run with it!
Sad to see the SCOTUS devolved into a tool of corporate interests. This alone should be enough of an issue to elect a progressive president in 2016 and once again stack the senate with Democrats.
I never though I’d live to see such blatant pandering from this branch of government.
Unfortunately the media won’t run with it. People like David Gregory and Wolf Blitzer will all but laugh at it.