Justices voting together:
SCOTUSBlog reports on how often pairs of Justices voted together. Here are the top 9 percentages (counting those times that the Justices agreed with each other entirely):
Souter |
Ginsburg |
85% |
Rehnquist |
O'Connor |
79% |
Rehnquist |
Kennedy |
77% |
Stevens |
Souter |
77% |
Ginsburg |
Breyer |
77% |
Stevens |
Ginsburg |
75% |
Scalia |
Thomas |
73% |
O'Connor |
Breyer |
70% |
Souter |
Breyer |
70% |
The big surprise to me: O'Connor and Breyer being so close.
Not a surprise at all: Scalia and Thomas, though they vote together often, are only #7 on this list.
The lowest percentage: Unsurprisingly, Stevens and Scalia, at 38%.