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AP writer Mark Sherman has, "Follow year of division, Supreme Court avoids 5-4 splits," via Google News.This could be the Supreme Court term, one court watcher joked recently, that Justice John Paul Stevens remembers he is a Republican. A 1975 appointee of President Gerald Ford, Stevens is regarded as the anchor of the court's liberal wing. But he has joined with his more conservative colleagues in three high-profile cases that defied predictions they would showcase deep ideological divisions on the court. Last term was marked by an unusually high number of 5-4 decisions, and many experts believed this term's notable cases would produce similar outcomes. But the biggest cases decided so far ? upholding lethal injection procedures, photo identification requirements for voters and Texas' treatment of a Mexican on death row ? have had six or seven justices, including Stevens, in agreement on the outcome...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).