SCOTUS declines to hear Liberty University’s Obamacare suit: http://t.co/QHgzvCh2Ly

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) December 2, 2013

BWHAHAHA

Put in more legal terms - the rule of 4 meant that not even the socon wing of the Court (Robert, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia) could agree that this merited a review.

The Court will still hear the Hobby Lobby case, but this does put a damper on the GOP assault on the ACA by any means necessary. Fact is that the GOP has pushed extremist legal arguments to get as far as they have, and trying to claim that a company has religious freedom rights under the 1st is a right that simply doesn’t exist anywhere - even among those who argued that corporations are people (a legal fiction).