The Supreme Court has heard somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70 oral arguments per term since Justice Kavanaugh joined the Court in the 2018 term. This is well more than 100 fewer arguments than the Court heard at the highest point of arguments per term around the first few decades of the 1900’s. That time…
Tag: dissents
Amid Record-Breaking Consensus the Justices’ Divisions Still Run Deep
How divided is the current Supreme Court? On the surface the answer appears mixed. Much conversation over from the past several years surrounding the Court’s decisions has had to do with partisan and ideological divisions among the justices. These divisions and the Court’s rightward shift appear a reality as evidenced by the systematic victories of…
The Dissenting-est Dissenters on the Modern Court
The Court’s opinions have been sliced, diced, and dissected in various fashions over the years as scholars and practitioners look for overt and latent meanings in the Court’s texts. An object of study has often been the dissenting opinion. The dissent is an interesting point of focus because both because of its purpose and its…
Empirical SCOTUS 