people think the strategy on trump s side isn t even that he has the winning argument but that it has been so successful for him to run out the clock. does the court have any pressure to respond in a timely manner or could they take their own sweet time? well, it s the supreme court. yes, they could take their sweet time. this will be not an emergency appeal. i don t know if they will file it as an imagine appeal. the lowers courts expedited we view here. they moved it along quickly. so either party cank the supreme court to move it along quickly and not just put it on the regular calendar because if the supreme court doesn t agree to hear this case by mid january then the calendar for the year is filled up. that s the way these things normally work. but i have a humplg this will move quickly and the supreme court will take notice of the fact in a the lower courts have moved very quickly on this question. i would say, by the way, that