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Decision could happen? >> reporter: it could happen this weekend or early next week. now, under obamacare, it's a mandate for nonprofit religious-based organizations to provide birth control to their workers. unless, and this is really the key here, they sign a form that expresses their objections and also allow a third-party insurer to provide that coverage. churches, and houses of worship, they're exempt from the mandate. this week, a home for the elderly, run by catholic nuns in denver, asked the supreme court to block the enforcement of this. the nuns say that it still violates the religio...

Lines. this week, the beckett fund for religious liberty successfully got a supreme court injunction in hopes of extempting their client, little sisters of the poor, from providing birth control coverage to their employees. obama has said the nuns could avoid having to offer contraception coverage by signing a form offered by the government. they say that is unacceptable. today in its filing with the supreme court, the obama administration urged the court to reject the lawsuit. in the meantime, 11 republican attorneys general are claiming the administration is breaking the law by making change...

Over what it means to fill out a government form. the way the government sees this, is what they're asking these religious organizations to do is simply decline to cover contraception because they have religious objections to it. and that allows their insurance provider to provide the contraception coverage to provide birth control coverage or not. the way the little sisters view it, they view it as something of a permission slip. this is, again, a fight over whether this is -- this is a religious freedom issue or a health care issue, fred. >> and then is it clear whether the supreme court cou...

Now. why wait? he obama administration called on a supreme court justice to reinstate part of president obama's healthcare overhaul. a rule centered around religious groups health insurance plans which provide contraception coverage. remember, a group of nuns in denver has challenged the rule. on tuesday, justice sonia sotomayor temporarily blocked it, and today the justice department issued its formal response arguing that religious organizations can opt out of the mandate to provide birth control coverage by signing a waiver and they had until today to do that. so they had to respond bid t...

Through the system that the white house and that the administration have set up to try to do that, they still feel their religious liberty is impinged upon, even if a third party provides coverage. i think the white house is saying, look, we did everything we could. we've taken this out of your hands, put it in somebody else's hands, and they're still getting lawsuits. we'll see what the actual government's response is to justice sotomayor probably sometime tomorrow morning. >> erin, i know on our website, you've been writing about this. you were just working the phones before. what's the late...