Yes, Kabuki, reading the oral argument tea leaves one way or the other has led many a prognosticator astray from what the eventual ruling would be.
And as we all know, just because the Supreme Court deems something to be "legal" does not make it right, moral, or just.
Dred Scott said slaves were not Americans and had no standing and said the Federal government cannot regulate slavery in newly acuired territories, both elements were reversed only as a result of war.
Gitlow could be pointed at as the beginning of the supreme state making it more difficult for Americans who are jealous of their liberty from changing their government in the manner of the Founders because the "direct incitement" directed at the present government, we'll gosh, could have a field day with that cirteria today, eh?
Korematsu gave the thumbs up to FDR's Executive Order 9066 for the internment of Japanese Americans based upon the definintion of the "exclusion order". What was done once can be done again.
Griswald began the march to expel God from Public Schools, what followed was inevitable - greater power by teachers unions, an ever lefetward lurch in curiculum, higher costs and lower scores and moral behavior.
Roe came along and create an entire new right that never existed before and made it
legal to slaughter millions of babies for the most trivial of reasons. The American Holocaust continues unabated.
US v Virginia ended single sex state schools and ended institutions like VMI, yet "black" colleges are allowed to exist, VMI and the other schools should have been allowed to continue! IS this the most prominent start of the war on men?
And on June 28th 2012 the nefarious ObamaCare law was upheld when the turncoat Roberts redfined a penalty to be a tax, thus making it legal, this is the day the Republic officially ended, everything after this point is just going to leverage off that fondation, the Imperial Government will not ever sucumb to peaceful transformation...and things will only get worse.
Bourbon, Single Malt, Rum...I'm easy to please aned I have my own chair.