Politics, SCOTUS

Time Spent On SCOTUS Bench Makes Justices Lean Left

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Justice Anthony Kennedy, who joined the court in 1988, has historically had a score solidly to the right of center, but last term he found himself slightly to the left for the first time. Justice Stephen Breyer has drifted from just left of center to solid liberal. Even Justice Antonin Scalia has liberalized somewhat from his extremely conservative positions in the late 1990s.

— Oliver Roeder of FiveThirtyEight, writing about the statistical phenomenon at the highest court in the land that has caught people’s attention. It seems that the older Supreme Court justices get, the more liberal they become.

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