JAMES TARANTO: Contempt of Court: How to lose friends and alienate justices. “Perhaps her goal in insulting the justices is not to win them over but to discredit them in her readers’ eyes should they dare to defy her.”

(Via Ann Althouse, where a commenter observes: “Lithwick’s essay, like Greenhouse’s, is clearly part of the left’s effort to pre-emptively undermine the legitimacy of a possible Supreme Court ruling against the constitutionality of the ACA. (See also the attacks on Thomas’s participation in the case.)”).