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Roberts and Sotomayor on one side, Scalia and Ginsburg on the other. Not really a right/left split. If you had to draw some line, you might notice that the dis
by brownbat 14y ago
Roberts and Sotomayor on one side, Scalia and Ginsburg on the other. Not really a right/left split.
If you had to draw some line, you might notice that the dissenters, Ginsburg (80), Scalia (77), and Kennedy (76), are the oldest on the bench.
I wouldn't read too much into that, just thought it was interesting. We probably already make too much of the "right/left" line in the court, since cases like this--where people don't cleanly line up according to political ideology--are fairly common.