Jon Gould

You have a president who was a constitutional law professor and looks at the court as a political institution, he is expecting the court to act in that way, and is potentially trying to send a little bit of a message.

It's really difficult to know. If you ever were to ask one of the Supreme Court justices whether this has any influence in any way, the answer is going to be no, at the same time, we think we have circumstantial evidence that several justices take into account the political climate, the political consequences of their decisions.