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I'm under the impression that lopsided decisions are actually the more common outcome in cases before the supreme court. That it's the ideologically divided on
by rootusrootus 2y ago
I'm under the impression that lopsided decisions are actually the more common outcome in cases before the supreme court. That it's the ideologically divided ones that are outliers, even if they garner most of the media attention. Is that incorrect?
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoThat's basically correct, but the percentage of unanimous decisions has been on a downward trend: https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/frequency-in-majority-2.png https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/freque...
- rootusrootus 2y agoThank you for sharing that graph; it seems quite descriptive, knowing what we do about the ideological makeup of the court. That jump in 6-3 rulings stands out.
- delichon 2y ago> The justices have been unanimous in the judgment in 20 of the 29 cases decided thus far But it's expected that they wrote the easier opinions first and the remaining 30+ cases will be more contentious. https://reason.com/volokh/2024/05/30/supreme-court-ot2022-at-the-end-of-may/ https://reason.com/volokh/2024/05/30/supreme-court-ot2022-at...