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There are few sentences I am more loath to speak than “Donald Trump is right.”

Estimates of the haul — only estimates, because all but a few guests were loath to talk or press charges — inched up to around a million dollars, a conveniently round, impressive number suitable for a miniseries subtitle.

Judges are loath to blow the whistle on colleagues and have historically taken the position “Not my chambers, not my business.”

And like them or loath them, video meetings are here to stay, via the likes of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet.

“I am loath to bless this aggrandizement of judicial power where Congress has so plainly limited the discretion of the courts, and where it so clearly intends for the expert agency it has created to make the primary determinations about both merits and process,” she wrote.