Someone Already Set Justice Ginsburg’s Hobby Lobby Dissent to Music

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Supreme Court justice’s dissent on a major ruling was turned into a weird, lyrically awkward ballad. Well, songwriter Jonathan Mann, who’s been writing a song a day for hundreds of days now, took Ginsburg’s words and set them to music.

Ginsburg issued a dissent railing against the “decision of startling breadth”, writing, “The distinction between a community made up of believers in the same religion and one embracing persons of diverse beliefs, clear as it is, constantly escapes the Court’s attention.” Obviously ripe for a song.

This would actually make it much easier to understand Supreme Court decisions. Instead of decisions, just give Scalia a guitar and let him jam.

Watch the music video below:

[h/t ThinkProgress]
[image via screengrab]

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