— Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting in Citizens United
“We see no reason the Supreme Court would recognize constitutional
protection for a corporation’s political expression but not its
religious expression.”
— Judge Timothy Tymkovitch, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, writing for the majority in Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. v. Sebelius
If right-wing America had set out to design a Supreme Court case that
combined all of its political fetishes, it could not have done better
than to come up with Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. v. Sebelius, a devilishly
complex assault on Obamacare, women’s health care rights in the
workplace, and the embattled idea that the Bill of Rights is for people,
not corporations. The outlandish claims of the company involved would
not have a prayer except for Citizens United, the miracle gift of 2010 that just keeps giving.Read on...
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