Good news, of a sort: I'm not right all the time. What a burden to set down. On May 23 I wrote that the campaign to make Roberts switch his vote by scaring him with threats of damage to his "historical reputation" and what-not -- this campaign was blisteringly obvious at the time -- wouldn't work.
Silly me. And, once again, apologies to Justice Kennedy!
Thanks to illegal and immoral leaks
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