My own view, as I think some of the above comments should suggest, is that I think it's quite likely that the justices spent much of the past 10-12 days trying to find consensus on a more complete disposition, and failing. It definitely didn't take 12 days just to get to this result. And so to me, the most likely explanation is two blocs of justices with opposite preferences (deny outright vs. stay and delay), where the justices in the "middle" saw this as a compromise. The only question I have is how close we came to something else, but we likely won't know the answer to that anytime soon.
My own view, as I think some of the above comments should suggest, is that I think it's quite likely that the justices spent much of the past 10-12 days trying to find consensus on a more complete disposition, and failing. It definitely didn't take 12 days just to get to this result. And so to me, the most likely explanation is two blocs of justices with opposite preferences (deny outright vs. stay and delay), where the justices in the "middle" saw this as a compromise. The only question I have is how close we came to something else, but we likely won't know the answer to that anytime soon.