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With a 6-3 conservative supermajority, the Supreme Court is seeing more rulings split along partisan lines, according to the appointing president’s party.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the country's highest federal court.The Court has ultimate—and largely discretionary—appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of U.S. federal law, plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases.. The nine Supreme Court justices base their decisions on their interpretation of both legal doctrine ...
Two Republicans who lost the popular vote reached the Oval Office by prevailing in the Electoral College. Those two — George W. Bush and Donald Trump — would eventually appoint the five ...
The Supreme Court's nine justices are split along ideological lines, with the current court's six conservatives forming a sizeable majority.
The Supreme Court's nine justices are split along ideological lines, with the current court's six conservatives forming a sizeable majority.
At the conclusion of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first term, the Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative majority is grappling with its newfound control. A split developing among its members is complicating the conservative revolution some predicted after Barrett’s confirmation last October.
On the current Supreme Court, ideological lines coincide with party lines: since Elena Kagan succeeded John Paul Stevens in 2010, every Justice who was appointed by a Democratic president has had a more liberal voting record than every Republican appointee.
The six conservative, Republican-appointed justices stuck together to block Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, to bar US universities from considering race in their admissions process, and...
The Supreme Court ended its term this week in familiar fashion, issuing blockbuster conservative decisions on affirmative action, gay rights and student loans that divided along partisan lines,...
They repeatedly called attention to the Court and, with it, party differences on gun control, immigration, health care, abortion, campaign finance, and voter identification laws. This article documents that today’s Court is different from past Courts in the linkage between party and ideology.