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To: marktwain

Who voted in favor?


19 posted on 02/20/2018 6:17:09 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: xzins

We’ll never know. Votes in Justices’ conferences are never announced. It takes four votes to agree to hear a case. We know from his dissent that Justice Thomas wanted to hear it but there weren’t three other votes.
Needing four votes in order to procede to oral arguments is called “The Rule of Four.” I’m betting that Alito and Gorsuch joined Thomas but Roberts and Kennedy didn’t.


37 posted on 02/20/2018 9:10:46 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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