injunction based grounds, not establishment clause grounds. he wanted to dismiss the writ as improperly granted. . the district court that approached the injunction that he found problematic and i suppose what one could say is in constitutional avoidance terms that there s a nonconstitutional grounds to reverse the decision maybe that s the route that he chose. he didn t put that exactly in the opinion but i think that may have motivated him to come to that result. eight justices were ready to decided case but it brings to mind another case in the establishment clause context where justice kennedy seemed to be the only justice who continued to like the distinction between cowen and valley forge. eight other justices were ready to decide one another whether there would be taxpayer standing in establishment clause cases. eight justices seemed to suggest that the court s distinction was fairly incoherent. yet because of one justice and the disposition of the case that s what
people whose efforts are making us have some success. thank you. . governor jindal has expressed concern that there s been a lot of attention paid to where the oil is on the surface, what we can see, how much do we know about where the oil under water is. is that being modeled, or are we just waiting for it to wash up on shore to see where it is, and are we going to expect to see more of these tar balls coming up to shore? what s the plan for that? let me tell you the direction of the president of the united states. we want to be transparent with the entire nation. the nation requires that of us. any information we have, we need to make available. it is a difficult thing to major, so there are lots of guesses out there in terms of the amount of oil and the quantity of oil that has already gone out to sea. the amount of oil that has already been cleaned up. but whatever information it is that we have, as a government, we want to make available to everybody. we re working