颇具意味的是在弗吉尼亚和德克萨斯两案中投多数票的法官同样也在关塔纳摩湾案中持多数意见：他们是在"布什对戈尔"一案中投反对票的4位法官和在里根政府时期被任命的两位相对温和的法官-桑德拉·戴·奥康诺和安东尼·肯尼迪。
Significantly, the six Justices in the majority in the Virginia and Texas cases also constituted the majority in the Guantanamo Bay case: the four dissenters from Bush v. Gore plus Ronald Reagan's two relatively moderate appointees, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy.