[DoodleDawg]

... but King who is in a position to appeal that ruling - and that King need not ask for an en blanc hearing, but could elect to appeal directly to SCOTUS.

He can but I thought I read somewhere where King is already planning his Supreme Court appeal. However there is no guarantee that the Court will agree to hear it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

No guarantee, agreed. But it would be tantamount to SCOTUS agreeing with the idea that a judge can make policy contrary to black-letter law.

Even the judge who ruled for the government in King admitted that he wasn’t going by what the law said, and was intended to say.