The court ruled 7-2 against the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, which challenged the legality of the administration’s 2018 rule weakening the so-called contraceptive mandate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act
The mandate requires that employer-provided health insurance ensures coverage for birth control with no co-pays. Previously, many employer-provided insurance policies did not offer this coverage. Republicans have sought to repeal Obamacare, signed by Trump’s Democratic predecessor Barack Obama in 2010.
Rules implemented under Obama exempted religious entities from the mandate and a further accommodation was created for religiously affiliated non-profit employers, which some groups including the Little Sisters of the Poor objected to as not going far enough. The legal question was whether Trump’s administration had the legal authority to expand the exemption under both the Obamacare law itself and another federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows people to press religious claims against the federal government.
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