>>>>>>>I'm not good with math. What does 3 over 5 shake out to?
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>>>>>>I didn't say the math was wrong; I said it was misleading.
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>>>>>>One key point is that the Supreme Court tends to overrule 75% of the decisions they choose to review, so in fact 60% reversal of reviewed cases is below average. But beside that, there's the question of how many of her decisions were chosen for review. (The Supreme Court gets to choose which cases to review among those appealed to it.)
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>>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>>Haha, Tamar, you're reaching....
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>>>>No, I'm not. Are you upset that Alito had a 100% reversal rate from his time on the appeals court? The Senate wasn't.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Could you provide the link in regards to Alito's 100% reversal rate? Please, do not refer to blogs.
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>>It appears that 100% may not be correct. I haven't found an exhaustive review. Here's an article that discusses some of his cases that went to the Supreme Court, and clearly he was reversed several times:
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>>http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-22-scotus-alito_x.htm?csp=34
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>>The article says he was affirmed in other cases, but doesn't mention any. It also repeats the point about the court being selective in what they take.
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>>Tamar
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>So you retract on your previous statement? It is Ok. Does the article refer to any numbers, re: reversal rate?

No, it doesn't have a rate. It mentions some specific cases where he was reversed, but doesn't give any numbers.

I did find documentation for the overall reversal rate at http://scotuswiki.com, which has summary statistics for each year since 1995. I didn't look at each year, but the ones I looked at were all pretty high (62% or more reversed).

Tamar