Correlation of SCOTUS votes.

[Kevbo]

@Captain_Amazing

I haven’t really read the other thread, so do you have the cite that they voted together only 65% of the time? Is that leaving out times when they agree in the judgment but write separate dissents or concurrences?

I misrecalled the pit thread.

@villa

Some numbers:

Voting Patterns in SCOTUS 1956-2004

Scalia and Thomas voted together 67% of the time. High, but not top ten of all time.

Breyer and Ginsburg voted together 68% of the time, which unless my math is off, is slightly higher.

Warren and Marshall voted together 88% of the time.

Now, generally speaking, I like the side that Breyer and Ginsburg, and Warren and Marshall ended up on.

But, if you are going to imply that Clarence Thomas in incapable of making a decision without Scalia to guide him, what does that say about either Breyer or Ginsburg, and either Warren or Marshall?