Are the Liberal SCOTUS Minority More Partisan than the Conservatives?

It seems there's more independent thinking and freedom from partisan loyalty among the conservatives than among the liberals on the SCOTUS.


Democrats, spare me your complaints about partisan justices
Opinion by Henry Olsen

Democrats have been lambasting the Supreme Court and questioning its legitimacy because, as they argue, its conservative majority is shamelessly partisan.

That’s laughable. The court’s Democratic-appointed justices are clearly more partisan than their Republican-appointed counterparts.

In practically every high-profile case, it’s easy to guess how the Democratic-appointed justices will rule. They are unanimously pro-abortion rights, unanimously pro-affirmative action and unanimously in favor of interpreting the Second Amendment to permit significant regulation of guns. They almost always back the positions made by environmentalists, progressive civil rights activists and the kaleidoscope of gender and sexual-orientation interest groups. And they invariably defer to Democratic administrations about the power that laws afford them — while doing the opposite when a Republican president is in office.

It is very rare for Democratic-appointed justices to break ranks in a major, politically charged case to rule against the Democratic Party’s preferred outcome. . . .

In the meantime, if Democrats want the court to be less partisan, maybe they should encourage their justices to act less so on the bench. Just a thought.

 

Of course you're correct sir. Often we see conservative justices such as Gorsuch or Roberts or Kavanaugh vote with the liberal minority. It's always been that way, conservatives vote to uphold the law first.

 

Read the OP in this thread: Conservative courts versus liberal courts, we're wired differently. | PoliticalForum.com - Forum for US and Intl Politics There is a liberal saying straight up that liberal Justices consider "public interest" or "evolving societal and cultural context" or "reflects changing values and understandings" and agreeing that is what they should do.

As I said in that thread:

A judge is supposed to be impartial as much as possible and NOT let their world views reflect their rulings. Which means they should not be considering "public interest" or "evolving societal and cultural context" or "reflects changing values and understandings".