Senate Democrats plan Hobby Lobby response

Via Todd Zwillich:

As hinted by Reid, leadership aide says Sen Dems will have a legislative response to Hobby Lobby ruling.

— Todd Zwillich (@toddzwillich) June 30, 2014

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:

#HobbyLobby decision is another defeat for an administration that has repeatedly crossed constitutional lines → http://t.co/LS1oqCmnVi

— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) June 30, 2014

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