Yesterday I asked:
The Harvard Law Review, vol. 117, p. 481, counts the percentage of times that each pair of Justices voted together in the 2002-03 Term (apparently the number of times they joined the same opinion, not just reached the same bottom line — “the number of decisions in which the two Justices agreed in a majority, plurality, dissenting, or concurring opinion”). According to this table, which Justices were most often aligned?
Mostafa Sabet, Will Trachman, Marc Weinstein, David Gil, and Barry Jacobs got the right answer: Souter and Ginsburg, who voted together in 91% of the cases. Rehnquist and Kennedy voted together in 89.7%; Ginsburg and Breyer in 84.4%; and Scalia and Thomas also in 84.4%. Thomas and Breyer were least aligned, voting together in 44.7% of the cases, and only 12.5% of the nonunanimous ones.
For similar information from past years, see Sasha’s post from last July.
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