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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Tierney Sneed reported on the Supreme Court’s wishful thinking that a compromise is possible in a major case where religious non-profits are objecting to accommodation created for them in Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate. There’s already signs of disagreement of what the Supreme Court’s opinion means: Lawyers for the ACLU and National Women’s Law Center said that, as things stand now, the government can continue to guarantee the contraceptive coverage for the employees under the current regime. (That interpretation seemed to be backed up by public statements made by White House spokesman Josh Earnest and President Obama about the opinion.) A lawyer for the Becket Fund — among those representing the religious groups — told TPM however that the government could not continue “business as usual” in guaranteeing the coverage, and would have to figure out a new way to see to it that the female employees get contraceptive coverage.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “But again, the Sanders campaign and particularly the supporters in Nevada are claiming that the Nevada party bosses deprived them of ‘democracy’ over the weekend. The reality is that the Sanders folks were trying to overturn the outcome of the election. You can do that in the current system. It’s not cheating. But if your banner is ‘democracy’ and ‘transparency’ you just haven’t got jack.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I think Hillary is going to get crushed with white union members, but I don’t think this is going to have a major impact on Democratic GOTV efforts. And it has everything to do with Donald’s white nationalist identity politics, as opposed to environmental issues. I trust that minority and female union members will be reliably in Hillary’s column come November. Further, this is talking about a group of labor unions. Unions are not boycotting the GOTV effort en masse. The AFL-CIO is still on board. It’s strictly a group of construction unions, pissy about allegedly lost jobs on infrastructure projects like Keystone XL. The wiser position is knowing that there will be just as many, if not more, jobs available to scale up our clean-energy efforts, and to build up a smarter grid that will be necessary to deploy our new, cleaner energy. So, long-story short, I think this is much ado about nothing. An isolated skirmish over a GOTV effort, that will occur with or without the threatened boycott. No votes will really be gained or lost over this skirmish.”
Related: Last year the top labor unions held off on endorsing Clinton.
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What We’re Reading
It’s gotten a lot harder to act like whiteness doesn’t shape our politics. (NPR)
Can Bernie Sanders control his supporters at the Democratic convention? (The L.A. Times)
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