The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative and liberal justices split across ideologies this week on a case in which the majority and dissenting lineups featured unlikely names.
On Tuesday, the court ruled 5-4 in a case involving a Romanian-American dual citizen who failed to report millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts, with the question before the court whether he violated the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to disclose the funds.
The court ultimately ruled in the taxpayer's favor, but the split was a surprising division. On one side of the court were Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts and Ketanji Brown Jackson. On the other side were Justices Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
