Next Monday I will file an amicus brief in Zubik v. Burwell,... [to] criticize the Administration for adopting an irrelevant tax
provision that exempts some entities from filing tax returns (26 U.S.C. §
6033) as the mechanism for determining which religious groups are
exempt from the contraceptive mandate...
....Administration health policy officials were downright obsessed with
figuring out which Catholic institutions would fit within the section
6033-based exemption. As early as October 2011, the White House was
trying to figure out how to structure the exemption so that Catholic
universities would be forced to provide student contraceptives in
student health plans. In July 2012, emails show officials trying to make
sure that the contraceptive mandate would treat the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops – the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholic entities in
the United States – differently from the colleges, charities, and other
groups that they lead....
Think the IRS Code is 'impartial' and 'even-handed'?
(Think ANY President--Republican or Democrat--will trash the IRS Code? You're deluded.)
...As I argue in the forthcoming amicus brief, section 6033 has
exactly zero relevance to religious freedom interests. These documents
are fatal to the Administration’s claim that structuring the
contraceptive mandate this way was an effort to respect the religious
groups’ religious objections. In fact, it was an arbitrary choice that
failed to take into account the virtually identical religious freedom
interests shared by groups granted and denied an exemption from the
mandate....
So. We know that D.C. is utterly corrupt and their IRS Code is equally corrupt. Even if this amicus proves fatal to ObozoCare, there's a helluvalot more swamp to be drained.
Or there's the Convention of the States.
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