The M-Q Scores are a cold, analytical approach to Justice bias. They cut through a lot of static. Please click here for more background and details
Many times, especially on FR, the new/Trump picks get torched and are declared liberals and Souters and Kennedys blah blah blah. More in that later.
Alternatively, the MSM pains the three leftists as “unbiased” which is utterly laughable.
Lets go to a more recent tote board:
For those who REALLY love data-driven analysis on page 11 of this document (beware…the doc was “Prepared for The NY Times”), there is a table of M-Q Scores for the Justices in 2014 vs in 2023.
We’ve gone from FIVE Justices with liberal scores (average of -2.228 for the big libs, excluding Kennedy the -0.226 squish) to only THREE lib Justices averaged at -2.866.
At the same time, the FOUR “conservatives” averaged 1.75 in 2014 vs SIX ‘conservatives” averaging 1.411 in 2023.
Thus, empirically, the liberals are more intense but they have a smaller blast radius. The conservatives are less intense but have a wider/majoroty blast radius. Also, the standard deviation for the conservative scores of 1.12 in 2023 vs 1.056 in 2014 suggests the conservatives are only slightly more divergent now vs then.
I will take Door #2023, Monty.
Class dismissed.