Richard Kopf, a U.S. District Court judge in Nebraska, writes a blog. The other day, he vented about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Hobby Lobby, the decision that extended the fiction of corporate personhood to the point of now offering the law’s protection to “corporate” beliefs. The owners of Hobby Lobby can have their corporation opt out of providing contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act.
Writes Kopf about the court’s tendency to decide, on a 5-4 basis, significant issues dividing the country: “Next term is the time for the Supreme Court to go quiescent – this term and several past terms have proven that the court is now causing more harm (division) to our democracy than good by deciding hot-button cases that the court has the power to avoid. As the kids say, it is time for the court to stfu.”
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