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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by jcranmer on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:39PM (#24524053)
Here's the complete breakdown for the most recent term: https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Merits...

  36% 9-0
  10% 8-1
  20% 7-2
  11% 6-3
  23% 5-4
(Note that this is a somewhat unusual year, as several cases were pushed from the previous term to the next term due to COVID-19--and the cases not pushed were so selected because they had more urgency, which generally means more contentious).

Most cases tend to be unanimous or nearly so (0-1 dissenters), and only about ⅓ of cases are contentious (5-4/6-3/5-3). This has been decently stable over the past few decades.

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by function_seven on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:45PM (#24524106)
That jibes with my impression of the decisions I’ve seen. You and a sibling comment are giving me these stats and I’m not sure if that’s to refute or support my point? 1/3 of decisions being split like that is quite a bit. 1/3 being unanimous is also significant.

I guess my point is that their friendship didn’t seem to have impaired either justice’s ability to do their job with faith to their respective judicial philosophies.

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by arwineap on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:37PM (#24524765)
gybes ?

I get confused with all the sailing terms in common vernacular, but generally the sayings go

"I like the cut of your jib"

"That gybes well with me"

Noting that none of them make sense, I think leeway is possibly the worst

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by efitz on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:12AM (#24524975)
In this case, "jibes" is correct[1] and is not a borrowed nautical term. In this context "jibes with" means "agrees with".

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by function_seven on Saturday September 19, 2020 @01:55AM (#24525479)
You made me look it up, and it turns out I was using it correctly. But it's funny, because I had originally written "jives", then second-guessed myself and changed it to "jibes."

I had never seen the "gybes" spelling before. Is it like tire/tyre? Looks Welsh to me!

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