An Even (Even) More Nuanced Breakdown of the Supreme Court

An Even More Nuanced Breakdown of the Supreme Court

JULY 1, 2014



Last week, my colleagues Adam Liptak and Hannah Fairfield wrote about the divisions among Supreme Court justices. In showing the justices on a spectrum from more to less liberal, they found “a series of clusters, a few loners and several telling gaps,” not a steady progression from left to right.

But a one-dimensional spectrum may not be enough to capture some of the more interesting divisions. For example, in the latest term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (a member of the court’s liberal wing) was slightly more likely to agree with Justice Antonin Scalia (a member of the conservative wing) than with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (in the center).

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Wait a minute, now!  Stop this op/ed.

These folks are playing ring around the rosie (Ring Around the Roses) with us.

Whether they know it our not they are be·clouding this issue.
I see something here so obvious it can bite you (if you are blind to the facts). 

Now, for my hard facts observation... 
An Even (Even) More Nuanced Breakdown of the Supreme Court

• The current Supreme Court is comprised of 6 Roman Catholics and 3 Jews.
• All the other trivia about who is conservative and who is a liberal of the JUSTICES is elementary!  Blasé-bla...

When the United States of America is according to a 2007 PewResearch Poll on Religious Affiliation, 23.9% Roman Catholic, and 1.7 % Jewish.

How in Heaven's name can there be 6 Catholics and 3 Jews on a court with so much power and only 9 Judges?  

That is the nuance that screams at you when you analyze the 'real' demographics of the U.S. Supreme Court, everything else is smoke and mirrors.

Arsenio.