Religious-liberty order led to contraceptive exemptions later upheld on agency authority
Agencies converted the order into broader religious and moral exemptions from contraceptive-coverage rules. The Supreme Court upheld agency authority to issue them without deciding that every application was required by religious-freedom law.
Entities and roles
- Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Libertyexecutive action under legal and impact review
- Donald J. Trumppresident who issued the action
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpdirected religious-liberty policy throughExecutive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty
Claims and evidence
- factdocumented
In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court held that federal agencies had statutory authority to issue the challenged contraceptive-coverage exemptions and had satisfied the procedural issue before it; the decision did not hold that the 2017 executive order itself created a blanket constitutional exemption.
- Supreme Court of the United States: Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. PennsylvaniaMajority opinion on agency authority and the scope of the Court's holding
- factdocumented
On 2017-05-04, Donald Trump directed the Treasury Department, to the extent permitted by law, not to take adverse action against religious organizations for specified moral or political speech and directed three departments to consider amended regulations addressing conscience-based objections to the preventive-care mandate.
Corrects claim:batch-200:religious-liberty-order-2017