Bloodless Coup

Justices Scalia and Thomas

Eugene Volokh challenges the view that Scalia and Thomas are identical ideological twins here. I'd say he's right. Of course they vote the same way much of the time. The Court is unanimous much of the time, and when it's not it's likely to break into factions that broadly match the ideologies of the elites who appointed particular justices. But as Hamdi showed yesterday, and the cyberporn case showed today, these two do disagree on matters of considerable importance.