Angry tweets mistake SCOTUSblog for official Supreme Court Twitter account
Twitter users who mistook SCOTUSblog’s Twitter account for an official U.S. Supreme Court Twitter account fired off angry tweets on Monday condemning the Supreme Court’s decision on the health-care law’s contraceptive mandate.
The 5-4 decision held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protects closely held corporations whose owners have religious qualms about providing insurance coverage for contraceptives to their workers. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog published its favorite SCOTUSblog replies (which follow modified tweets or retreats of the criticism).
They include:
Failure of democracy. MT @Rockinwil: Time to do away with the @SCOTUSblog since they are no longer representing citizens of the US.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2014
We thought blogging seemed very 21st century. MT @Iiuslep: @SCOTUSblog want to obliterate any progressive acheivement of 20th century.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2014
Um, call your ISP? RT @controlmemore: @SCOTUSblog kicked down my front door and stole my freedom. What do I do now?????
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2014