One thing I’ve learned the past few years is that judges—not the ideological justices of the Supreme Court, but ordinary judges—are chickenshit, afraid to disrupt status quo power even when clear precedent, ordinary legal reasoning, standard court procedure demand it. They make exceptions, reason with wild creativity, to avoid putting themselves in a hot seat. Examples include deferring Trump proceedings past the upcoming election, inverting the purpose of securities law to not blow-up crypto.