premise: What I submit -- well, first of all, even the petitioners acknowledge that, as far as prospective limits are concerned, that isn't a judgment that this Court is being made to ask and, in fact, the petitioners acknowledge that it isn't a judgment that this Court should make, so the only point that the petitioners --
hypothesis: The petitioners know everything.
reason: The context listed the petitioners as a reference for the decisions made by the speaker, but the petitioners don't know everything per the context,only what is listed. How much they know can only be assumed.