“... the government is confident that it’s going to prevail in the Supreme Court and would like to have a decision sooner rather than later,” former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger told Politico.”
Why are they confident? Are they blackmailing SCOTUS?
“Why are they confident?”
4 reliable statist liberals, 2 of whom Obama appointed
1 squish who most likely would not go out on this limb
1 true constitutionalist (Thomas)
3 conservatives who should be solid
5-4 upheld would be the over-under on this. BUT Kagan should recuse AND Kennedy should over-turn ... to get you to 5-3 overturned.
I hope!