And because that depends on concerted action by Ukraine's deeply divided ruling class, without a "third Maidan" to push them into action, that part of the equation looks just as doubtful as compliance with the Minsk agreement.
The sharply divided ruling was a major victory for the Obama administration's efforts to advance a sweeping view of executive secrecy powers.
The court's sharply divided ruling tonight, declaring that vote counting shall not be resumed, seemed unlikely to have resolved this debate.
A different Republican judge joined the three Democratic appointees in another divided ruling, this one striking down a youth curfew in Rochester as unconstitutional, though other courts around the country have approved such laws.
All of the principals in the drama have by now died, but the case lived on long enough to give rise to a significant and closely divided ruling on the separation of powers in the context of bankruptcy.
In another divided ruling, a second federal appeals court, based in San Francisco, declared that the administration's policy of imprisoning noncitizens on a naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was unconstitutional as well as a violation of international law.
Many of the arguments heard at today's hearing, which was presided over by all nine members of the court, concerned the Supreme Court's narrowly divided ruling in 1978 in University of California Regents v. Bakke.
But as it became apparent that the court's complex, divided ruling had in effect ended the nation's longest election night in favor of Gov. George W. Bush, Republicans wearily rejoiced and Democrats voiced bitter disappointments.
First, we study whether a divided ruling party was the cause of the opposition party candidate's victory.
Conservative councillor Craig Williams, who put forward the motion, said the city had been damaged by a divided ruling Labour group.
