Mirabelli v. Bonta · ¶43

the appropriate line and to explain its legal basis—in short, to do law in the right way—if it had followed our ordinary processes. A mere decade ago, this Court would never have granted relief in this posture. (Indeed, I am confdent that the plaintiffs would never have thought to ask, at this stage, for the Court's involvement.) Then, though apparently not now, we understood that our normal processes—full briefng, oral argument, conference, and opinion writing, along with the time they take—exist for a reason. They ensure that before the Court makes a decision, it has marshaled all the relevant facts; considered all interested parties' and multiple lower courts' legal arguments; and deliberated internally, with full understanding of each other's perspectives, on all disputed issues. So too, those processes enable us to think through the best legal rationale for, and scope of, any…

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