Will Baude

Yeah.

saying, oh, no, no, we don't agree with Judge Ho's reasoning.

We agree with somebody else's.

Now, I know Alison Ho a little bit.

I actually think she'd be totally comfortable disagreeing with anything Judge Ho had said if it was incorrect.

But you can imagine, like, you'll just want to put that on the table for your client and say, now, you should know, like, I did represent one of the judges below, but don't worry, it was the good judge.

But if you can do that, like, why not do that all the time?

Actually, Judge Ho dissents all the time.

Why doesn't Alison Ho... That could be her old practice.

Yeah, cold call everybody who got a Judge Ho dissental and say... And then also be good for his shortlist prospects, presumably.

Like, the more of his dissents that get vindicated by the Supreme Court, the better he looks.

I feel like there's a real industry you could get going here.

Yeah, yeah.

And then every judge needs somebody like this.

Like, every judge needs a spouse who believes in their dissents as much as...

His other advantage is that he's a University of Chicago alum, and so he's obviously the best judge for the—

One other thing.

So the position that the court ended up taking, ignore the big split on heck and instead resolve it on this grounds, is the view that the Solicitor General's office argued.

So the United States came into the case and said, you should rule for the plaintiffs on this ground, but don't go to the other ground.

And if you did, disagree with the plaintiffs.