re: #51 EPR-radar

I see. I don’t usually give much weight to Justices’ questions during argument —- it is theater more often than not. E.g., Roberts asking a question that has an answer known to all in the room, including himself.

Roberts is there to grant the conservative majority the illusion of sanity by asking questions whose answers are only so obvious, Scalia is there to show us what happens when a Justice stops giving a shit and lets his freak flag fly, Kennedy is there to offer a fig leaf by being a nominal “liberal” who nevertheless is increasingly jump on the anti-federalism bandwagon, and Thomas is just there to occupy a seat.