Anyone still running with the idea that the court is more conservative than it was is too brainwashed by the media to ever understand reality or SHAME.
You're a moron, and you should stick to subjects on which you aren't hopelessly uninformed. At the very least, you shouldn't embarrassingly say that
others are brainwashed away from reality.
Since the Court gained a conservative majority (Kennedy was firmly a conservative jurist, even if less so than Thomas, Alito, and Scalia), the Court has reversed decades-old stare decisis toward blatantly political causes. They've held that compulsory public unions dues are somehow a contravention of 1A rights because....government is the adverse party in public collective bargaining: that was a reversal of 70 years of jurisprudence. They've held that campaign finance regulations are a contravention of the First Amendment and that money is speech: a reversal of 40 years of jurisprudence without
any basis in previous opinions. They've held that government whistleblowers being punished by the government is
not a violation of the First Amendment. They've held that the 2nd Amendment prohibits states from regulating individual firearm ownership, which was a reversal of 70 years of jurisprudence.
The Roberts Court was already considered probably the most conservative Court since the Lochner era. Now that Kavanaugh is on the bench, it is undoubtedly, without question, the most conservative Court since Lochner.
Would it really be too bold to suggest that there is a significant (though not determinant) effect whereby SC Justices work backwards from a partisan political bias? If you polled Americans on that you'd hit high 70s affirmative, I'd bet.
Lol yes, and they'd be right (although I think their suspicions would be pointed in the wrong direction).
I'd say it was less so 1930-1980. But before then (when former politicians were commonly appointed), and especially now, it's pretty glaring. As JVS has (correctly) opined, the ACA cases were a pretty blatant issue of relevance to this phenomenon.
As far as the liberal court currently goes, the Justices (Breyer, Kagan, Soto, and RBG) aren't
nearly as liberal as the liberal titans of yesteryear like Douglas, Warren, Brennan, and Marshall. But, to be certain, those justices weren't considered overly partisan by conservative voters of their eras. In fact, Brennan and Warren were appointed by Republicans.
