If I had to sign on to STUPID LINE X, I’d hide my head, EVEN IF paid a price.
At any rate, no sense in taking an outcome-determined court of law seriously. They'll do what suits them, and there are enough precedents around (going both ways) that it is trivial to pick the ones that support the selected outcome.
All courts are outcome driven. Somethimes the outcome really does comport with the law, but the law does not drive the outcome.
No. It's "Even if I had to do it to get a fifth vote on my side, if I ever had to sign on to STUPID LINE X, I'd hide my head."