Marty Lederman: Contrarian view: Things would be worse, not better, if the SCOTUS had explained the grounds on which it acted today. (Note that Justice Sotomayor doesn't expend any energy criticizing the absence of a substantive opinion. Presumably she knows what it would've said.)

Contrarian view: Things would be worse, not better, if the SCOTUS had explained the grounds on which it acted today. (Note that Justice Sotomayor doesn't expend any energy criticizing the absence of a substantive opinion. Presumably she knows what it would've said.)