[mewzilla]

Thanks! I suppose, though, if a case reaches SCOTUS, it’s a big enough deal to gore someone’s ox. Especially if that someone has some juice.

Maybe we ought to take a closer look at those cases. :-)

[mewzilla]

Or maybe it’s someone’s ox that’ll get gored in the future....

[Alberta's Child]

Right -- but go back over the last few years and notice how many of these relatively inconsequential cases end up with lopsided decisions or narrow decisions where the votes don't break down along politically ideological lines.

Even important cases can have surprising results with unexpected votes. Check out the Carpenter v. United States case from last term, which involved the privacy of cell phone records and the legal obligation of the police to get a warrant before getting a hold of them for a criminal investigation. I'd say 95% of the folks posting here on FreeRepublic agreed with the majority decision of the court -- which was made by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan

Kennedy, Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch were the dissenters in that case.