It's Elementary, My Dear Watson

This Reason article adopts a libertarian-leaning but fundamentally establishment-respecting tone that treats the Supreme Court as a legitimate institutional actor worth analyzing rather than condemning. The framing centers judicial reasoning and precedent (characteristic of conservative legal analysis) while maintaining intellectual distance through analytical language; the cryptic title and focus on Supreme Court deliberation suggests skepticism of activist approaches from any direction, positioning the piece as institutionally conservative without overt partisanship.