was bad enough. But it was worse if one believed what her husband revealed a few months after Bush v. Gore was decided. At a large charity dinner, he told another guest that Sandra had voted as she did—even though “she knew it was wrong”—in the hope that she would be able to retire sooner. That was inconsistent with what she had said at the Court—that she had real objections to what was happening in Florida. But it would have been inconceivable for her to acknowledge to colleagues or clerks—or to herself—that she consciously chose Bush over Gore despite knowing it was wrong to do so.
