#SCOTUS upholds expanded exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate for employers with religious or moral objections

Opinion from Justice Thomas in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-431_5i36.pdf. Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh join majority opinion. Kagan & Breyer write separately to concur in the judgment. Ginsburg dissents w/ Sotomayor

Key point on today's ruling: The court holds that the Trump administration had statutory authority to expand the exemption from the contraception coverage requirement, but the court leaves open the possibility for opponents to challenge the exemption as arbitrary and capricious.

Kagan underscores the point in her concurrence. She points to specific examples of HHS "handiwork" that "may also prove arbitrary and capricious" on remand.