http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/06/walker_v_sons_of_confederate_veterans_the_supreme_court_confronts_the_ugly.html

The nine Justices on the Supreme Court wrote their opinions and dissents in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans Inc.—a major speech case over Texas’ right to reject license plates emblazoned with the Confederate flag—without ever imagining that a white racist who posed in front of a car with a Confederate license plate would assassinate nine people in a historic  Charleston, South Carolina, church, mere hours before the opinion would be read aloud. None of the nine justices could have known that this decision would come down just as the Internet was blowing up with accusations that South Carolina has both honored and welcomed hate with its determined embrace of the Confederate symbol on state property. But at some level, Justice Samuel Alito must be at least a little bit grateful that his rip-snortingly funny dissent about specialty plates (“If a car with a plate that says ‘Rather Be Golfing’ passed by at 8:30 am on a Monday morning, would you think: ‘This is the official policy of the State—better to golf than to work?’ ”) didn’t become make the headlines this morning.