I stayed. I stayed. Do you have the same time pressure to get something out to your publications . Not quite as much as some of the folks who need to get something out within the hour. I have daily some of the papers i write for are daily and needed to get something out but, you know, the editors also realize im one person so i do the best that i can and we all make it work. Well, you know, you sit there and making so many judgments because i had my colleague knows more about business cases and he was going to cover aerial coming second. I said ill do the susan b. Anthony First Amendment one and not knowing that Justice Sotomayor is about to present this great dissent which matters to me both in my day job and in this side project book on her. So after she says what she says and i know its huge, im thinking, i promise ill stay for the susan b. Anthony oral arguments so my editors are hoping for that but i also know i have just observed this big moment i want to be woven into whatever s
Usually straddles the middle and whose vote takes the middle. He wrote a concurring opinion saying, lets lower the temperature here. The decision doesnt mean as much as my colleague Ruth Ginsberg with the dissent has said but its, you know, its narrower the way Justice Alito says and like he tried to bridge the rhetoric in the moment more than the substantive issue. Justice ginsberg is not normally an alarmist and having achieving the goals that bob said might have been part of the reason for the dissent. She saw it the way she saw it and that kind of alarmist dissent, theres history for it. You remember that Justice Scalia in two big gay rights decisions said, if you buy this, then the next thing you know, samesex marriage and he turned out to be right. Somewhat broader question still focusing on hobby lobby, the case involved four separate issues, any one of which could have been determinetive. Whether a corporation was a person for the religious freedom restoration act or whether th