[Redbob]

Liberal MUST conclude that today's Supreme Court is conservative, else how do they explain the Court's ruling in favor of the Bush election in Florida.

It just HAD to be those nasty conservatives that did that to dear Algore, out of spite!

[neverdem]

I think Rehnquist is closer to a moderate statist than a conservative, closer to O'Connor and Kennedy than Scalia and Thomas.

[EdReform]

read later...

[swilhelm73]

Is today's Supreme Court conservative? Yes, if by "conservative" we mean to the right of the average American sporting a "John Kerry for President" sticker on his rear bumper. Agree or disagree with Senator Kerry's platform, it is hardly a platform that both blue states and red states can unreservedly embrace.

This about covers it. The average American reporter finds the Democrat party to mirror his, and his middle to upper class urban associates's, views.

Therefore anything to the right of the DNC is rightwing. That this includes not only the center, but also the center/left is a point the press is purposely oblivious to.

So the court which has 3 conservatives, 4 leftists, and 2 judges somwhere in between center and center/left is rightwing to the press's jaundiced eye. After all, there are 5 judges more conservative then they!