car i carvin also sow what was going on. he and a libertarian group promptly filed the challenge justice alito had sketched out. sailed that he had invited. indeed, mr. carvin asked the lower courts to rule against his clients, a christian education group, and 10 california teachers so they could high-tail it to the supreme court. let me interrupt my reading of the story for a second and make the point, this lawyer wanted to lose his case in the courts below. it is rare for lawyers to go into a court wanting to lose. you have to have kind after weird motive to take a case into court that you want to lose. the obvious motive here is that mr. vin had heard the signal from mr. alito that he was willing to rule his way if he'd just bring the right case. so it didn't matter whether he won or lost. losing is actually quicker. gets you right up to the some of the not interested in litigating the matter truly on the merits, only interested in getting as quickly as possible to the supreme court. why? because he knew that 5-4 he'd get