[Mouton]

The really good news is it was 6-2.

[kabar]

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and the court was divided 6-2, with justice Elena Kagan recusing herself from the case; she was the U.S. solicitor general when the case was before the lower courts.

The tone of the article is, to say the least, off-putting. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG, and by 2043 we will be a majority-minority country. Demographics will take care of the problem.

[fwdude]

The really good news is it was 6-2.

Let me guess, it was the two remaining hags, right?

And if Sandra Day O'Connor had been there, it would have been 3.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

That is incredible!

[Dagnabitt]

The really good news is it was 6-2.

That is good.

Probably would have been 6-3, if Kagan didn't have to recuse herself.

Sotomayor's dissent was apparently a pile of convoluted nonsense regarding the different ways to change policies.

[pierrem15]

I guess for the media, anything short of unanimity is a “divided court”. They’re such open liars.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The really good news is it was 6-2.

The not-so-good news was that only the result was 6-2; there was no majority opinion, so the precedential impact of this case will be small.

The opinions broke out 3-2-1-2-1: a lead opinion by Kennedy, joined only by Roberts and Alito; an opinion by Scalia, joined only by Thomas, that would have reached the same result on a much broader ground; an opinion by Breyer, joined by no one else, that reached the same result on a third ground; a dissent by Sotomayor, joined only by Ginsburg; and a recusal by Kagan.