he Supreme Court failed to resolve a knotty dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control on Monday.<br />The case concerns the administration’s arrangement for sparing faith-based groups from having to pay for birth control for women covered under their health plans.<br />“The court expresses no view on the merits of the cases,” the justices wrote, ending a major confrontation over President Barack Obama’s health care law ended with a whimper and no resolution.<br />The matter almost certainly will not return to the Supreme Court before the 2016 presidential election, and perhaps not until a new justice is confirmed to take Scalia’s seat, if at all.
