the supreme court. how long might that take? because it s only an emergency stay that they can ask for, right? yes. well, i m certainly i m certain that they have already been in touch with the clerk s office in washington, d.c., the supreme court, and they ve alerted justice kennedy, the circuit justice, that something could be coming this weekend. i don t know how quickly the motion s panel will act. the motions panel will have to be persuaded that there s some need for them to act really quickly. a judge can be who s the senior judge on this panel, he s been a judge for 37 years. he s seen a lot of back and forth. he s not likely to say, oh, this is the end of the world, which means they might wait until monday or tuesday. they might give the state of washington a chance to file some briefs in response. and the circuit justice will not intervene, usually, unless the court here has finished with it. so i would say i would be surprised if you saw something, say, oh, happen by