When asked, Chief Justice William Rehnquist insists that Supreme Court decisions are issued when they are ready, and that no other factor enters into the timing of their release.
But it was hard not to suspect that something more deliberate was at work Tuesday when the justices handed down decisions in two Virginia death penalty cases — argued five months apart — on the same day another Virginia capital case was being argued.
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