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I am not saying 5-4 is the most likely result, just that even 19% of decisions being 5-4 is huge.
by enitihas 7y ago
I am not saying 5-4 is the most likely result, just that even 19% of decisions being 5-4 is huge.
- brlewis 7y agoI don't think that's huge, considering that questions with clear-cut answers shouldn't make it to the Supreme Court.
- tomatotomato37 7y agoThere's only 5 combinations of yes/no votes you can get with 9 indistinct entities, so 20% isn't unusual at all
- jakelazaroff 7y agoTrue, although if you consider each entity distinct there are 512 combinations and the one split along partisan lines is probably vastly overrepresented among other 5-4 possibilities.