Decisionism Is Just Like Mark Sanford*

Remember how Martha Coakley argued in the U.S. Supreme Court? The thinking at the time was that she did not do so well. Today, unsurprisingly, she lost. It's interesting, though, that the justice who asked her a question that nearly catastrophically tripped her up, Justice Kennedy, wrote an impassioned dissent supporting her position. So you just never know.

*In that it disappears for days and days without explanation. Thankfully, the similarities just about end right there.