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Inauguration photo

Gee, I never saw that many sad faces in one place.
 
I Ratant said:
and either the Pleiadian Galactic Ambassador, or a politician who forgot to leave his other face at home...
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Definitely some bad stitching in the picture. Aretha Franklin has the worst case of double chins I've ever seen. Right next to a mysterious floating hat, too.
 
Is it wrong that I find Thomas to be scarier?

Edit for 2 things:

1) Scalia's hat is adorable.

2) Thomas and Scalia joined at the hip as always.
 
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KingMerv00 said:
2) Thomas and Scalia joined at the hip as always.
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Much is made of this as supposedly being evidence that Thomas is just Scalia's dumb sock puppet. And yet, in cases where the court did not rule unanimously:

  • Thoma agreed with Scalia 75% of the time;
  • Scalia agreed with Roberts 79% of the time;
  • Roberts agreed with Alito 83% OTT;
  • Roberts agreed with Kennedy 74% OTT;
  • Alito agreed with Kennedy 77% OTT;
  • Breyer agreed with Souter 70% OTT;
  • Souter agreed with Ginsburg 77% OTT;
  • Ginsburg agreed with Stevens 73% OTT.
Source. The full article is pretty interesting, from a mathematical point of view.

Thomas's voting vis a vis Scalia's is not at all remarkable, in context.
 
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BPSCG said:
Much is made of this as supposedly being evidence that Thomas is just Scalia's dumb sock puppet. And yet, in cases where the court did not rule unanimously:

  • Thoma agreed with Scalia 75% of the time;
  • Scalia agreed with Roberts 79% of the time;
  • Roberts agreed with Alito 83% OTT;
  • Roberts agreed with Kennedy 74% OTT;
  • Alito agreed with Kennedy 77% OTT;
  • Breyer agreed with Souter 70% OTT;
  • Souter agreed with Ginsburg 77% OTT;
  • Ginsburg agreed with Stevens 73% OTT.
Source. The full article is pretty interesting, from a mathematical point of view.

Thomas's voting vis a vis Scalia's is not at all remarkable, in context.
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I didn't mean to imply that Thomas was sock puppet, only that he and Scalia agree a lot. Turns out I was right.

Also seems that trend is common in the SCOTUS. Not shocked by that either.


Edit: Heh. Thomas and Stevens agree 11% of the time.

Side note: On a personal level Scalia prefers Ginsburg. Go figure.
 
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KingMerv00 said:
I didn't mean to imply that Thomas was sock puppet, only that he and Scalia agree a lot. Turns out I was right.
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Everyone on the court agrees with someone else a lot. But it seems people only find Thomas's concordance with Scalia remarkable.

Why is that?
 
I love the look on Bush's face.

Also Emperor Palpitane is sitting about five rows above Thomas slightly to the left.
 
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