This is a way for the courts not to get bad press. For the defendant at the time this is a terrible ending. For everyone else it's still nice. From a court's perspective this is a good compromise.
No it isn't. This is one of those cases where by tweaking things as such the Judiciary has shown that it cannot be trusted to keep the Executive in line. Again.
The Courts are coming out of this looking even worse than they have been.
If this was about discrimination of race, as a rights violation, it is clear that good faith is irrelevant. Rights supercede good faith and the presumption or previous decisions are improper.
The Courts are coming out of this looking even worse than they have been.