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It takes four votes of the nine to accept a case.There is one reason for the decline from the heavy workloads of the 1980s that everyone agrees on : A 1988 congressional decision made at the court 's behest eliminated a number of mandatory appeals , leaving the justices to pretty much set their own agenda.Beyond that , theories abound . " This court has repeatedly held that , under the Sixth Amendment , any fact that exposes a defendant to a greater potential sentence must be found by the jury , not a judge , and established beyond a reasonable doubt , not merely by a preponderance of the evidence , " Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority.It was a majority that gives credence to the justices ' often-made complaint about attempts to peg them as either liberal or conservative.The prevailing side in Cunningham v. California consisted of Ginsburg , Clarence Thomas , Antonin Scalia , John Paul Stevens and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. " This court has repeatedly held that , under the Sixth Amendment , any fact that exposes a defendant to a greater potential sentence must be found by the jury , not a judge , and established beyond a reasonable doubt , not merely by a preponderance of the evidence , " Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court.The majority was one vote larger than the 5-4 rulings that have been the norm in sentencing cases . It is a familiar position for a man painted by the government as both unusually self-reliant and occasionally self-destructive . WASHINGTON - - A village of small houses that may have sheltered the builders of the mysterious Stonehenge , or people attending festivals there , has been found by archaeologists studying the stone circle in England . North Korea , although nominally a republic governed by a representative assembly , is actually ruled by the Communist party ( known in Korea as the Korea Workers ' party ) . Koreans , as well as people in several other Asian countries , have believed since antiquity that each person is destined to possess certain characteristics depending on where his or her birth year falls in the 12-year astrological cycle.These beliefs are still so deeply held that couples delay having children in a horse year , induce abortions if they believe their baby will be a girl or deliberately misreport their daughter 's birth year , the researchers found .