The Supreme Court's verdict on the "Hobby Lobby" case seems to have attracted more than just criticism, with a Nebraska federal judge telling the highest court to just "stfu" on his personal blog on Saturday, CNN reported. There has been no immediate reaction from the Supreme Court yet, and it remains unclear whether the 68-year-old judge will be subject to some internal sanction.
Judge Richard Kopf, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, is the latest one to criticize the high court's ruling last week in the so-called "Hobby Lobby" case, delivering a profanity-filled commentary to justices for taking what he sees as a too active role in controversial cases.
"Five male Justices of the Supreme Court, who are all members of the Catholic faith and who each were appointed by a President who hailed from the Republican party, decided that a huge corporation, with thousands of employees and gargantuan revenues, was a 'person' entitled to assert a religious objection to the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate because that corporation was 'closely held' by family members," he wrote. "To the average person, the result looks stupid and smells worse."
And he ranted further, "Next term is the time for the Supreme Court to go quiescent-- this term and several past terms has 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." The acronym stfu is used for the phrase "shut the f*** up."
It is not the first time Kopf's words have attracted attention to his blog, which he describes as enlightening "the role of the federal trial judge," according to UK MailOnline. In March, he made headlines for writing a post titled "On being a dirty old man and how young women lawyers dress" that recommended some female lawyers to dress more conservatively. Later in October, Kopf declared Congress should "go to hell."
However, the controversial district judge has revealed in his latest post that he might give up blogging due to an anonymous lawyer's request. The lawyer wrote, "There is little surprise in the level of attention drawn by, or the inevitable public reaction to, a federal trial judge, in a public forum, repeatedly using vulgarity including serial exercise of the f-word, apparently disclosing a fondness for looking up the skirts and down the blouses of female attorneys who appear before him, telling Congress to "go to hell", and urging the SCOTUS to 'stfu,'"
"How does such attention and reaction create an appearance that assists the public's acceptance of the law, help people trust judges, foster faith in our system, and advance the cause of the delivery of justice?," the lawyer added.
Kopf said he was thinking about following the lawyer's advice. "I am going to give this letter serious consideration. It comes from someone I respect and whose judgment I trust. It also reminds me that, as a physician might say, I should always strive 'first to do no harm.' Blogging will be light while I figure this out,"
CNN spoke with Kopf's office, which had no comment.
