a nine to nothing ruling. but the justices did agree. in fact that it is not up to the states to enforce an execute the 14th amendment. you saw at justices alito and thomas in agreement with justices sotomayor and kagan on that point. it s simply he could not be as a matter of law, as a matter of constitutional interpretation, that every state gets to do what it wants, because otherwise that would leave us with a quote, patchwork of different states doing different things according to the decision. so it s a rare 90 opinion and i think they hit the nail on the head here now we saw two concurring opinions, one by justice amy coney barrett, and one by the three liberal leaning justices. they really had a big disagreement there yeah, i think the actual amount of disagreement here isn t that much when you drill down on it, it s important to understand all nine justices agreed. it s not up to the states. the five justices in the main opinion said it has to be done by congress on
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