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Federal Judge to Supreme Court: ‘STFU’

Demonstrator react to hearing the Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby Lobby case outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP/Corbis

Nebraska’s Richard George Kopf, a federal judge appointed by President George H.W. Bush, spent his holiday weekend blogging, which is apparently something he does regularly. “To the average person, the result looks stupid and smells worse,” he wrote of last week’s Hobby Lobby decision, urging the Supreme Court to stay away from “deciding highly controversial cases (most of the time),” if possible. “As the kids says [sic], it is time for the Court to stfu.” The link to UrbanDictionary is his. (It means “shut the fuck up.”)

Federal Judge to Supreme Court: ‘STFU’