[Huck]

The Supreme Court, with a 5-4 conservative majority

This is a stretch. There are 3 conservative Justices (and I am not sure how Rehnquist's track record compares to Scalia's anyway). There are 3 liberal justices. And there are two in the middle, who basically get to decide how things will go.

[mrs9x]

Scalia and Thomas are almost identically conservative on the court. Rhenquist is not as conservative as those two, but is still fairly conservative. O'Connor and Kennedy make up the two swingers, and then the four liberals are fairly reliably in the opposition.

[lepton]

where'd the other one go?