Describe the impact of a "swing vote" on the Supreme Court.
On the Supreme Court panel there are 9 justices. It's an odd number so that means one party will always have an extra person so that the majority is in their favor. If their is a "swing" voter, in our case Kennedy, then the number of Democrat and Republican justices are split in half and the "swing" voter usually decides a tie because he is not for either party but votes for both on different issues.