Tomorrow, sometime very shortly after 9AM Central Time, the Supreme Court will issue its decision in the Heller case, the most important Second Amendment case in history, one which will likely define this nation’s approach to one of our civil liberties as defined in the Bill of Rights for the unforeseeable future.

To say I’m looking forward to this is an understatement; I have had four different posts written against this day – with differing ledes for four different permutations of results – for over a month now, the faster to get a piece up and posted when the word finally comes down from on high.

I am, as they say, loaded for bear.  So to speak.  Every possible contingency but one is accounted for.

I said “but one”.  Someone has gone and scheduled a meeting tomorrow morning.

At 9AM. 

Far from my office.

And no, it’s not going to get re-scheduled.  It depends on the presence of a number of people who routinely block entire days off of their schedules, to avoid getting overbooked. 

You might be thinking “take your laptop with!”   Nice try – but naturally, I’ll be presenting a number of design alternatives to assembled management from several divisions, via overhead projector; it’d hardly do to have SCOTUSBlog and my blog editor page open as I talked to the gathered multitude.

So, like Dr. Cox in the “NBA Final” episode of Scrubs, I’m going to discharge my duties with my usual excellence, and then race like a crazed man back to my digs, avoiding all water-cooler conversation until I get back online, to figure out exactly what to post.

(The alternative – predict the result and the time of its release, and set it to post before I go to the meeting – might lend itself to endless jocularity in the all-too-likely event that I predict something, like perhaps the number of pro and con justices or, perhaps, the actual verdict, wrongly.  But I think I’ll let y’all get your yuks elsewhere, thanks).