With respect, I have to ask whether you actually read the opinions as they are issued? If you’ve been reading them, you will conclude that this court is the most predictable in at least a decade or so. In particular.... which justice might you have expected to vote the other way, and which of their opinions/concurrences/dissents led you to believe that they would vote that way?
Sure we could’ve guessed how this one would go (though I am pleased there wasn’t even one dissenter, even though this would be blatantly unconstitutional but hey), but on other topics, as individuals, they’ve kind of been all over the place.
For example? Can you name a case in which this court has ruled differently than you would have expected from the justices’ previous opinions/dissents/concurrences? There are a few, but compared with some previous courts this one has been a model of consistency.
I get what you’re saying, but again, I don’t mean the rulings of the court as a whole, just individual Justice’s opinions. The random general Leftist having a “right” opinion or a Conservative “siding with the left.”
I think all the rulings as a Court have been consistent with what you would expect. I haven’t been surprised.
Really you’re right, and I think I’ve seen some more actual Constituional opinions recently than recently and previously.
I’ve just been mildly surprised a couple times on some individual opinions, but then again I’m only familiar with the history of about half of them.
With respect, I have to ask whether you actually read the opinions as they are issued? If you’ve been reading them, you will conclude that this court is the most predictable in at least a decade or so. In particular.... which justice might you have expected to vote the other way, and which of their opinions/concurrences/dissents led you to believe that they would vote that way?
Also how I interpreted that.
Sure we could’ve guessed how this one would go (though I am pleased there wasn’t even one dissenter, even though this would be blatantly unconstitutional but hey), but on other topics, as individuals, they’ve kind of been all over the place.
For example? Can you name a case in which this court has ruled differently than you would have expected from the justices’ previous opinions/dissents/concurrences? There are a few, but compared with some previous courts this one has been a model of consistency.
I get what you’re saying, but again, I don’t mean the rulings of the court as a whole, just individual Justice’s opinions. The random general Leftist having a “right” opinion or a Conservative “siding with the left.”
I think all the rulings as a Court have been consistent with what you would expect. I haven’t been surprised.
Really you’re right, and I think I’ve seen some more actual Constituional opinions recently than recently and previously.
I’ve just been mildly surprised a couple times on some individual opinions, but then again I’m only familiar with the history of about half of them.