“No — we’ve simply decided to take their say-so on the matter.”
IOW, you are posturing that they are or may be wrong in matters, but we nevertheless accept their wrongheadedness as law of the land. Am I more or less characterizing your position correctly?
“we have ruled, post facto, that the matters are as they say they are.”
Where is this ruling mentioned? How is it brought down?
Please check that out.