WATCH: Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby dissent set to music

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After the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that small “closely held” businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a blistering dissent, saying “in a decision of startling breadth,” it allows corporations to opt out of virtually any law they find “incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Mother Jones has compiled Ginsburg’s eight best lines, but here’s an added bonus: The highlights have been set to music.

You can thank Jonathan Mann, who has been putting up a song a day on YouTube, for that.

It’s definitely not going to be a hit, and Mann’s taken a few liberties with the wording, but it’s still worth a listen:

h/t: Mediaite

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