Exactly and that's so transparent it's a huge mark of shame for them to have interfered at all. So openly playing day to day politics like mobbed up used car-salesmen running for dogcatcher.
Couldn't even be brave enough to say "No, Harlan, that would disgrace the court too much and make us less useful to you in the future."
They had nothing to say, nothing to add, and should have stayed quiet.
futurebird