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"The justices decided about 20 percent of their cases on 5-to-4 votes, which is in line with recent terms. But the number of 5-to-4 decisions in which the court’s four liberals found themselves on one side and its four conservatives on the other was high: 12 of the 14 closely divided cases were configured that way, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy casting the decisive vote.
The justices like to say they are merely applying legal principles to facts without regard to ideology. But the chances of nine truly independent judges finding themselves in just two configurations a dozen times out of 14 is remote. Professor Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, calculated the odds as 1 in 44.2 quintillion."
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20...me-Court-s-term-dominated-by-first-amendment-
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." - Thomas Jefferson
The justices like to say they are merely applying legal principles to facts without regard to ideology. But the chances of nine truly independent judges finding themselves in just two configurations a dozen times out of 14 is remote. Professor Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, calculated the odds as 1 in 44.2 quintillion."
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20...me-Court-s-term-dominated-by-first-amendment-
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." - Thomas Jefferson
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2011
- Messages
- 66