Samuel Alito and John Roberts experience ecstasy, each in his own way.

Alito, so serenely beatific and floating in the moment ...



Roberts, beset with inner turmoil and straining to keep himself clamped in ...



... as the President arrived to deliver his State of the Union Address:



And so it would be not be the model of judicial restraint, Chief Justice Roberts, whose personal reaction would break the solemn decorum of the holy chamber. It would be Justice Alito, in a moment of selfless abandon, whose spirit would burst forth — open the floodgates — in a harrowing crisis of faith — the dark night of the soul that says not true.