Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by juniper_strong on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:59PM (#24523742)

"since 2000 a unanimous decision has been more likely than any other result — averaging 36 percent of all decisions. Even when the court did not reach a unanimous judgment, the justices often secured overwhelming majorities, with 7-to-2 or 8-to-1 judgments making up about 15 percent of decisions. The 5-to-4 decisions, by comparison, occurred in 19 percent of cases"

-Washington Post

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by sukilot on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:25PM (#24524335)

This is likely due to law getting far more specific over the decades, with less room for interpretation.

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by jcranmer on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:59PM (#24524549)

Having followed a lot of the recent SCOTUS cases, I can say that if you think the law is leaving less room for interpretation nowadays, you are sorely mistaken. Look up the "Armed Career Criminal Act"--it's an example of what seems like it ought to be a simple matter of interpretation (look! it defines "violent felon"!) into a headache (okay, the person has to have committed a crime whose state-level common-law interpretation in 1984 had to have required at least this much force, and I'm sure I'm still missing some details there).

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