A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court decision is usually the end of the road for a case, at least in the high court itself. But there has been nothing usual in the term about to close, and that may offer some hope to immigration advocates who suffered a major defeat in a 4-4 ruling Thursday.
Two of the term’s biggest cases have now resulted in 4-4 decisions that effectively affirmed the judgments of the lower courts in those cases: United States v. Texas and Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
