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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Supreme Court will hear Trump financial records case [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)If the liberals and Roberts can draft the opinion just right - maybe not going as far as we want but still strong - they might be able to cobble together a super majority or maybe even a unanimous decision.
Often - especially in major cases like this - there's a lot of horse trading between the justices who go back and forth over language and outcomes. The Chief Justice has a lot of influence over this. If he feels strongly that the Court needs to send a message, he and the other justices work out all sorts of compromises and adjustments to get to a unanimous decision, if possible.
One example of this is Brown v. Board of Education where Chief Justice Warren and the liberal wing felt the decision had to be unanimous and that a split decision would do more harm than good.
This is going to be interesting