I Demand a Recount!

Apparently, when the judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice were deadlocked on a vote, the President of the Court broke the tie by voting twice.

You can do that? Really?

Can you imagine if that happened in the Supreme Court if one of the justices recuses himself and the remaining 8 justices vote? I imagine it goes like this:

Chief Justice Roberts: OK, let's do a straw poll. In favor?
(Ginsburg, Breyer, Souter, Kennedy raise their hand)
OK, that's four. Opposed?
(Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts raise their hand)
OK. That's four to four. But wait a minute, we have another vote.
(Roberts raises his other hand. Grins)

You can't adjudicate that way. What do they call this process, Mexican Democracy? No wonder no one takes international law seriously.