This reads to me like Pillard is accusing Rao of acting like a Trump attorney and not a judge.

Which one?

Yes

Heavy breathing...

Ah I guess I got mixed up and ended up in the wrong 5-4 bracket challenge this year?

A lot of Schmidt energy here

This is possible because variants are largely uncorrelated across chromosomes, i.e., the correlation structure is approximately block diagonal.

In this paper we develop an effective way to "chunk" the calculation that we are calling the blockLASSO. In this work we took the blocks to be chromosomes and ran LASSO independently on each chromosome.

I think the really damning stuff for Garland are excerpts like this. You actually have to be trying to ignore facts of the situation to fall into this trap.