employees on religious grounds. >> the owners of these companies are making the incredibly radical claim that their corporations have religious rights under the first amendment, that the government requiring them to provide robust contraceptive coverage. -- >> if the supreme court says as it might, that a company like hobby lobby can assert a religious freedom claim, then what's to keep any company from saying we don't want to serve jews, we don't want to hire gays. >> that's the slippery slope here. >> that's what the supreme court has to be very concerned about. >> so the question here, is can a corporation hold constitutionally protected religious beliefs. what if the west borrow baptist church started a greeting card company and decided not to give -- effectively decide if a company can pick and choose which laws it will follow, based on the personal religious beliefings of its owners. >> joining us now is justice correspondent pete williams, and pete, why did this case come