I Think It Was a Trolling Moment.

Exa, the chief justice seemed a quite sympathetic to the idea that the government was perhaps making too much of a distinction between the phrases entitled to and eligible for in the relevant statutes. I think he and justice kagan were perhaps suggesting that because they were relatively similar terms, that was enough to provide deference to the agency in this context. Exa, so perhaps a moment of cross old coalition building between the two of them? The message was, burn it all down.