Will Baude

Yes.

For this problem.

detour, and we will get back to our main topic of discussion, but the reason that we had this particular recording session scheduled at this time was because the court had announced it was going to issue decisions on Friday morning, and everyone panicked and assumed that if they're going to do it on a Friday, it must be something huge.

It must be the tariffs case.

And as I understand it, the

Solicitor General and his staff were all in the courtroom this morning, geared up to hear the tariff's decision, and then the court decided, issued one opinion.

In a case that actually seems kind of interesting to us, because complicated, you know, procedural stuff, but not by any stretch of the imagination the case that people were waiting for.

But so I was thinking of that just because, you know, you're saying, well, maybe the court is conserving political capital.

I think that's quite plausible.

And I think that...

You know, we're not going to be able to evaluate whether the court, you know, has totally rolled over for Trump or, you know, is doing something more complicated until at the very least the end of this term and quite possibly until, you know, the end of the Trump administration.

Right.

But I mean, that will, you know, that is a case, I think, one where people think it's a very maybe one of the more likely places where the court might say the administration is wrong.

Okay, that's interesting.

Okay, so this case, Trump versus Illinois, is this part of that separate multidimensional chess game, not by the administration, but by the court?

Yeah.

Like, you know.

But I guess I'm assuming the administration thought it had a decent chance of winning and wanted to get that victory in its pocket.

Yeah.

Right.