4-4 Are Bad Numbers for Supreme Court

5th Sep 2005, 22:29 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Numbers matter and at the Supreme Court, the bad numbers are 4-4. Tie votes are the bane of a smoothly operating judiciary because 4-4 signifies that there's no decision, leaving the ruling of a lower court intact and making it impossible for the Supreme Court to sort out differences between conflicting decisions from below....