“The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a federal law called the Stolen Valor Act which prohibits a person from falsely claiming that he has been awarded a military honor,” NBC reports. “The case involved Xavier Alvarez who was an elected member of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District Board in Pomona, California. In 2007 Alvarez said at a public water district board meeting that he was a retired Marine, had been ‘wounded many times,’ and had been ‘awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor’ in 1987. In fact, he had never served in the United States armed forces.” Coming on the heels of the Court’s decision that the health care mandate is A-OK (it’s a tax), the ruling is bound to infuriate conservatives—despite the fact that the Obama administration argued for the Act.