Comments on: Who’s Writing the Opinion(s) in the Race-Conscious Admissions Cases? http://www.scotusblog.com/2007/04/whos-writing-the-opinions-in-the-race-conscious-admissions-cases/ The Supreme Court of the United States blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeffrey Kiok http://www.scotusblog.com/2007/04/whos-writing-the-opinions-in-the-race-conscious-admissions-cases/#comment-11156 Jeffrey Kiok Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:33:33 +0000 http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/whos-writing-the-opinions-in-the-race-conscious-admissions-cases/#comment-11156 If the Chief Justice is writing in <i>KSR</i> I think this would be the case where we're really going to see if the Chief Justice's promise to write narrow rulings that the whole Court can embrace will be a true one. If this is a 5-4 ruling, with the Chief and Justice Stevens controlling the majority and minority respectively, it will be interesting to see if the Chief Justice writes a decision to try to peel off a Justice or two from the minority. <br /><br /> I predict that he will not. If the Chief Justice is writing in KSR I think this would be the case where we’re really going to see if the Chief Justice’s promise to write narrow rulings that the whole Court can embrace will be a true one. If this is a 5-4 ruling, with the Chief and Justice Stevens controlling the majority and minority respectively, it will be interesting to see if the Chief Justice writes a decision to try to peel off a Justice or two from the minority.

I predict that he will not.

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