While Democrats continue to cast the Supreme Court as dangerous, the line-ups in majority decisions from the recently concluded term don’t support their narrative.
The term’s statistics reflect that rulings don’t always fall on expected ideological lines: out of the 22 decisions with a 6-3 split this term, only half were divided with the six Republican-appointed justices on one side and the three Democrat-appointed justices on the other, according to Empirical SCOTUS. Nevertheless, the term concluded with Democrats slamming the Supreme Court — Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going as far as pledging she would file