The really good news is it was 6-2.
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.
Let me guess, it was the two remaining hags, right?
And if Sandra Day O'Connor had been there, it would have been 3.
That is incredible!
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.
I guess for the media, anything short of unanimity is a “divided court”. They’re such open liars.
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.