This sort of trashy rumor-mongering / thinly veiled threat says far more about the person saying it than it ever says about the person/people it is targeting (either the judge(s) or the parties affected).
In this instance, it also shows just how weak their position is that they’re having to try to work very conservative refs long after argument, in a non-court setting, while the case remains pending
Yes, this is an important point that wouldn’t be apparent from my (or his) tweet. “Gorsuch might buy a textualist argument” is not very surprising.
Here was my thread from the arguments, which made clear some of Gorsuch’s textualist thoughts about the cases — although he also later asked the ACLU’s lawyer about “judicial modesty,” to be clear:
