exploring the snow on his morning walk. and do you have a great picture of the storm that you want to share? send them to us at #cnnweather. now this hour, the obama administration is asking not to evan perez issing us live. a deadline has come and gone? right. the justice department just in the last hour filed their legal breach. and they re asking the court not to extend a temporary injunction that had prevented the administration or prevents the administration from fining groups that don t provide the contraception coverage. this is a fight between the administration and a catholic charity in colorado called the little sisters for the poor. it doesn t sound like good optics for the administration. but they say it s a simple fight
accommodate when tired by religious groups without regard to their faith. what about the nuns? what has their argument been? reporter: they argue that even by waiving the contraception coverage righter they re enabling a violation of their religious beliefs and the sisters say it doesn t matter whether they re technically paying for it. excuse me. daniel bloomberg is an attorney and says the waiver amounts to a permission slip to for others to do what the sisters object. we re nuns. we can t turn around and start disrespecting life at its earliest phases by paying for and participating in the provision of drugs and devices that can take innocent human life. a justice sonia sotomayor and the full court must now decide whether to issue an injunction
under obamacare. here to explain, ms. megan kelly. so, sotomayor is a liberal woman. yes. she did what? barack obama appointee to the u.s. supreme court, but she oversees the 10th circuit, colorado and other states, so this appeal was necessarily going to her, and she said that that piece of obamacare may not be enforced against these religious groups that are within this plan. it was a group of nuns objecting, because until the obama administration has a chance to file a defense on friday. okay. suggesting they might have a likelihood of success, the nuns may. little sisters of the poor in denver. these aren t militant women. they are women who believe they are nuns! believe me, i have nuns, kelly, don t tell me about them. these are nice. they say, look, you know, leave us alone, we re providing a service here. don t force us to do things. obamacare said you have to provide contraception coverage if you want to get your tubes tied, you have to pay for that,
under obamacare. here to explain, ms. megan kelly. so, sotomayor is a liberal woman. yes. she did what? barack obama appointee to the u.s. supreme court, but she oversees the 10th circuit, colorado and other states, so this appeal was necessarily going to her, and she said that that piece of obamacare may not be enforced against these religious groups that are within this plan. it was a group of nuns objecting, because until the obama administration has a chance to file a defense on friday. okay. suggesting they might have a likelihood of success, the nuns may. little sisters of the poor in denver. these aren t militant women. they are women who believe they are nuns! believe me, i have nuns, kelly, don t tell me about them. these are nice. they say, look, you know, leave us alone, we re providing a service here. don t force us to do things. obamacare said you have to provide contraception coverage if you want to get your tubes tied, you have to pay for that,
it s coming, right? jon: i don t think there s much we can do to avoid it. i m jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. today may be the first real day of business of obamacare, but right out of the gate the administration s facing a legal challenge to one of the most controversial provisions of the affordable care act. not from republicans, but from a group of nuns. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor temporarily blocking the birth be control mandate for the little sisters of the poor. they, like other catholic and religious groups, say the mandate violates their religious beliefs, and among the contraception coverage is having plans this provide for plan b, the so-called abortion pill. a louisly-used term there loosely-used term there. mike emanuel s leave from washington with more. here we are january 2nd, where does this stand when it comes to the contraception mandate?