U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had a busy New Year’s Eve. It wasn’t enough that she pressed the button that started the descent of the New Year’s Eve crystal ball in New York’s Times Square, and led the final 60-second countdown to 2014. A few hours earlier, she granted a temporary injunction preventing enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate against religious organizations that object to providing birth control coverage.
Acting as the circuit justice handling emergency appeals from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Sotomayor approved a request filed on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
