>I, for one, am fully confident that these Justices will return a decision that won't be split 5-to-4 which is the only prediction I am willing to make. In the coming days, pundits and talking heads will be making predictions and interpretations, but any honest person can in no way predict what their decision will be.
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>I encourage everyone to find this recording and listen to it yourself. This is a great history lesson for us all.


I caught about 30 minutes of the session on NPR just a few minutes ago. Serious and fair stuff I agree.

The NPR analyst (Rosen?) said that the questioning took a different turn after mention of the McFarland (?) case. At that point there was a sense of a 5 to 4 split along conservative-liberal lines. He said it would be very unfortunate, and damaging to the court's stature, if they returned a 5-4 decision in this case.

I agree with you that they won't do that. Which leads me to conclude that they will not overturn the FL SC decision because it is practically certain that they could not get much unanimity around that decision.

Of course, I could be wrong...

Peter