I saw that too. I'm not sure how to feel about it. I know that lower courts are bound to uphold precedent via vertical stare decisis, but it sounds like even with the precedent as a given, she might have stretched it in a way she wasn't forced to. Do you have any thoughts here?

ACB seems like the perfect candidate except for exactly what you mentioned. So I am very curious how much of that was her hands being tied versus her being unusually authoritarian. Because if it's the latter, I absolutely share your concern.