41.   But perhaps the justices were more passive because this is a case in which they have reasoned their way into a corner.

42.   But other justices were just as critical of the state law.

43.   But the justice was uneasy.

44.   But the justices themselves have been busy.

45.   But the justices were openly hostile to the argument by Arkansas Attorney General J. Winston Bryant that the method by which the police enter a home is essentially irrelevant.

46.   But the larger lesson of government inaction in the case, he said, was that justice was available only to those with power.

47.   But the justices are powerful public figures.

48.   But several justices were skeptical.

49.   But the present justices have been reluctant, so far, to interfere with the power of states to set punishments.

50.   But the justice was again unimpressed.