Ties aren’t just underappreciated in American society, they are vilified. That’s why baseball has no limit to its innings, while ties are intrinsic to the more global sport of soccer.
Yet, the tied Supreme Court produced by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia — the 4-4 outcome that is likely to occur when Justice Anthony Kennedy votes with the conservative bloc — is an impasse roughly half the nation apparently is willing to live with for a year or more.
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