“I’ve only mispredicted one big Supreme Court case in the last 20  years,…That was Bush v. Gore. And I was able to internalize that by saying they only had a few minutes to think about it and they leapt to the wrong conclusion. If they decide this by 5-4, then yes, it’s disheartening to me, because my life was a fraud. Here I was, in my silly little office, thinking law mattered, and it really didn’t. What mattered was politics, money, party, and party loyalty.”

—Akhil Amar, speaking to Ezra Klein about the Healthcare case