Supreme Court Rules For Hobby Lobby's Religious Exemption to Obamacare, and People LOSE THEIR FREAKING MINDS

Instead of focusing much more on the amazingly unhinged and hateful responses of some angry folk on social media, let us try to look at the decision.  I give you initial thoughts by law profs Ann Althouse and Jonathan Adler.

UPDATE 1: OK, I laughed:

.@BarackObama is now googling “Can an Executive Order override Supreme Court?” #HobbyLobby
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) June 30, 2014

UPDATE 2:  Thoughts?

0 For 13

Via law prof Althouse comes this story of a losing streak.

DNA, the Fourth Amendment, and the Supreme Court Ruling

"Horrifying," opines Techdirt.  Certainly unsettling, wouldn't you say?  Don't miss Scalia's dissenting opinion.

Nerdiest, Most Obscure Supreme Court Protest Ever?

By Georgetown University Law Center students.  Quelle surprise.

Post-SCOTUS Decision: A Thought and a Giggle

In the wake of this morning's announcement, I give you an intriguing thought from the Anchoress (are we ultimately going to figure out that today's victory is actually a Pyrrhic one? hmmm) and a big giggle from the Star Wars-loving Internet:

Quote of the Day: Iowahawk on the Supreme Court Obamacare Decision

The Supreme Court finally announces today, and as usual, the hilarious Iowahawk nails it:

As a longtime connoisseur of overwrought political hysterics, it's CHRISTMAS MORNING.

It's going to be an uproarious day. Time to make a huge tub of popcorn, kick back, and watch the pageant of crazy from all sides.  


UPDATE:  The individual mandate survives ... as a tax.  I still hate it and the coercion of it, just as I oppose an increasingly overweening, overbearing national government that's perfectly happy to run roughshod over ... well, everybody.  How about instead of moaning and wailing, we repeal and replace this monster?

UPDATE 2: Dignified Rant has some thoughts.  Law prof Althouse will soon be doing a full analysis of today's decision (she's reading it now), but for now she notes that it's a huge tax on the middle class.  Well, apparently now ObamaCare can claim to cover both death and taxes, eh?  Law prof Instapundit also has thoughts and links.  Oh, and here are 4 excellent sentences from the dissenting opinion.

Quote of the Day: Waiting for the Supreme Court

I found this rant rather refreshing amid the increasingly fervid utterances from Left, Right, and Center about the Supreme Court's forthcoming decision on Obamacare and the individual mandate.  What do you think?

The very idea that we sit on the edge of our seats, eyes toward Washington DC, waiting on the deliberations and dispositions of nine mortals to tell us how much of our liberty we get to retain is preposterous.  It is offensive and repulsive to a free people.  

Irony Alert: Supreme Court Vs. Public Domain

ON TODAY OF ALL DAYS.  On SOPA/PIPA protest day.  REALLY?

Contempt of Court, White House Edition

Pretty much. It's unseemly and childish. KNOCK IT OFF, PEOPLE.