“Today is no different from yesterday.” Former Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper boomed those words to rally his supporters the day after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuked Colorado for its “clear and impermissible hostility” toward cake artist Jack Phillips and his Christian beliefs.

Looking back, that rallying cry really seems to have foreshadowed the state’s ultimate failure in prosecuting Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop a second time.