“Your Honor, my argument is so stupid that nobody ever had the idiocy and chutzpah to present it before today. Therefore it must be correct.” Though these were not the precise words used by counsel for Hobby Lobby today, it is a fair recapitulation of his argument. When Associate Justice Elana Kagan suggested that corporations could challenge other federal laws, like minimum wage and family leave requirements and protections against child labor, based on their religious beliefs, former Solicitor General, Paul D. Clement said such a parade of horribles would not actually come before a court, and no company had challenged a minimum wage law, for example, based on religious considerations.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:16:45 +0000
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