WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders has won Oregon's presidential primary and battled Hillary Clinton to a razor-thin margin in Kentucky, vowing to stay in the race until the end as Clinton aimed to blunt his momentum and prepare for a fall campaign against Republican Donald Trump.
Tuesday's primary in Kentucky was too close to call with Clinton leading Sanders by less than one-half of 1 percent. Closing in on the Democratic nomination, Clinton declared victory in Kentucky nonetheless, telling her supporters on Twitter: "We're always stronger united."
To the surprise of no one who has paid any attention to the litigation, the post-Scalia Supreme Court this week resolved the challenges brought by religious groups to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate without issuing a sweeping decision one way or the other. Instead, the Supreme Court's decision in Zubik v. Burwellvacated the lower court decisions under review and sent the litigation back to the courts of appeals, with a not-so-subtle hint that the parties should settle on terms suggested by the Court.
Many in the media are suggesting that the Court "punted." The Court did no such thing. The result is a short term victory for religious liberty advocates, but the longer term implications of the result are more troubling.
