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Senate Democrats plan Hobby Lobby response

Via Todd Zwillich:

In the Supreme Court ruling, Justice Sam Alito did suggest that Obama administration could increase access to birth control in ways that would not violate corporations' religious liberties. Alito specifically pointed to the compromise worked out with religiously-affiliated colleges and universities — where the insurer, rather than the employer, pays for contraceptive coverage — as one such path forward.

The odds that Republican legislators would support that type of path forward though seem to be quite low. This is what House Speaker John Boehner tweeted about the Hobby Lobby decision earlier this morning:

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