Sentence examples for court split from inspiring English sources
In a second decision on Monday, the court split 4-to-4 in an immigration case.
The court split with furious and public bitterness along partisan lines.
The Texas court split, 5 to 4, on Thursday in denying Mr. Turner's appeal.
The court split 5 to 4, with Justice Stevens joined by the court's four more conservative members in the majority.
His death leaves the court split evenly, with four justices on either side of the liberal-conservative divide.
Increasingly, Professor Driver said, the court splits 5 to 4, with appointees of one party opposite those of the other.
Mr. Mourdock taped responses to several possible outcomes of the Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act – the court upholds the law, the court overturns it, the court splits, the court doesn't provide an answer.
As the most senior member of the court's left wing, Ginsburg now has the power to decide who will write the dissent when the court splits five-to-four alinesideolinesalineses.
At this point, however, it should not be much of a surprise if the court splits along political lines, much as it did in the Bush v. Gore ruling in 2000.
Re "Court Splits Immigration Law Verdicts; Upholds Hotly Debated Centerpiece, 8-0" (front page, June 26): The Supreme Court has upheld the most damaging element of SB 1070, Arizona's cruel anti-immigrant law.
