Supreme Court skeptical of undoing Obamacare preventive coverage mandates

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32% : Justice Samuel Alito said the government's case relied on "an incredibly strained interpretation of the term independent." "If somebody's removable at-will, that person is not in any ordinary sense of the term independent," Alito said. Barrett tried to provide more nuance to the definition of independent, using giving her law clerks instructions as an example Barrett argued that she could instruct her clerks independently of political influence or even influence from other justices, but that is different from being entirely independent of her take on jurisprudence. SUPREME COURT CASE OFFERS TRUMP PATH TO DISMANTLE OBAMACARE MANDATES "So they're not independent of me or my instruction, even though I could say they were independent in a very real sense of the word," Barrett said.

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