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Supreme Court Issues 5-to-4 Rulings, But Not On Obamacare — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:48:01 +0000

[…] justices joined the majority opinion. That, too, is unremarkable, as I explain here, and Point of Law explained earlier at this link, contrary to the false conventional wisdom that depicts 5-to-4 […]

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:58:35 +0000

There is no doubt this is true. But the difference might be you would not see the split across ideological lines that you see now. I find 5-4 decisions that fall neatly along party lines to be quite depressing.

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By: Supreme Court Issues 5-to-4 Rulings, But Not On Obamacare

By: Ron Miller