So, Justice Ginsburg, formerly of the ACLU - though I don't remember Republicans holding up her confirmation or preventing a floor vote - recently said
Good cheer abounded and the mood persisted even through some of the term's most sharply divided decisions. And it is my fervent hope that despite the stormy final weeks that mood will hold.Yet, why is it that the press always refers to 5-4 votes as "bitterly" divided? I don't sense any bitterness here. And it's only "bitterly" divided when the 5 are the conservatives. I suspect the only bitterness is with the reporter.
