The fact that Mr Holt is willing to compromise with prison authorities to grow a beard that is only one-half inch long inspired an exchange in which Justice Antonin Scalia plainly second-guessed Mr Holt's faith.
She's given speeches full of nasty rhetoric, and Justice Thomas plainly shares Ginni's passions.
As to whether all pending executions should now be delayed, the appeals court all but challenged the justices to state plainly whether that was the case.
"The inherently medical nature of this judgment is not obviated by attempting to qualify it in terms of what a layperson might plainly observe," wrote Justice Albert M. Rosenblatt, in an opinion joined by the court's other six judges.
Aquinas wavers between suggesting that the use of lethal public force, e.g. in capital punishment, intends ("is referred to") justice rather than killing, and plainly accepting that in such cases death is indeed intended.
On Tuesday, John J. Bursch, Michigan's solicitor general, told the justices that Proposal 2 was plainly constitutional.
Those justices' integrity is compromised, as plainly as if they had personally solicited every dollar that helped elect them — and that helped drag the standing of their court so low.
When the costs were met, the government tried to get the case thrown out, but the judge, Mr Justice Green, said that this is "plainly a serious case" which "requires full judicial review".
The Justices' active involvement in this event plainly violates the principles outlined in Canon 4C of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which says judges "should not personally participate in fund-raising activities".
But the court said it was plainly in the interests of justice that he should be extradited "as soon as he is fit" to be tried.
