I tend to doubt that the Court is going to see it as a dilemma. They would have to be able to recognize inconsistency and to care about it one way or another in order for that to happen.

Remember what they did with their Bush v Gore decision? They said that that decision should not be used as a precedent for any other cases, and should stand alone. They invalidated their own decision when they did that. Did they care? No, they did not.