Erin carmon is a senior correspondent at new york magazine. She says this case has been historic since oral arguments, and that means a lot of people were paying very close attention. Carmon: The justices suddenly had to show their cards in a way that they hadn't before. Will this institution survive the finch that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts? And then you had chief justice john roberts trying very hard to hearken back to a time where the court might be open to what would be perceived as a compromise.