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To: Trump20162020
"Justice Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding vote allowing Lee to die."

What made Gorsuch the "deciding vote" as opposed to any of the other 4 Justices who refused to grant a stay?

10 posted on 04/21/2017 8:17:28 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Cuz’ it would have been a tie if he had not been there?


12 posted on 04/21/2017 8:18:25 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: circlecity

What made Gorsuch the “deciding vote”

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By order the votes were taken is my guess—newest member last to vote.
But that doesn’t mean his or any of the others were less important.


14 posted on 04/21/2017 8:21:29 AM PDT by deport
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Tie decisions mean the lower court’s decision holds.

It means no executions would have occurred.


33 posted on 04/21/2017 10:07:43 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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