“How many 5-4 decisions do you think Biden’s Scotus Pick will side with conservatives on? Lin Wood is not our friend.”
Okay, Mr. Smart Guy. Run the same stats for the last four years. Roberts went in over 15 years ago. Something changed when Trump arrived.
So, let’s see your data for the last four years.
By the way, Wood may not be your friend, but he is sure our friend (most on this forum).
And it’s looking like Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett are made of the same cloth as Roberts.
Sure. No problem.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS ALMOST ALWAYS VOTES TO OVERTURN PRECEDENT (for partisan ends)
After Justice Kennedy retired at the end of the 2017 Supreme Court term, observers expected that Chief Justice Roberts would take his place as the Court’s swing justice. While Kennedy had sided with liberal justices in a handful of important 5-4 decisions, the expectation that Roberts would become a swing justice was not confirmed by his subsequent voting behavior. Roberts’s alignment with colleagues in 5-4 decisions during the 2018 term indicates that his was almost never a swing vote, and that his decisions were virtually indistinguishable from those of the other justices considered most conservative. During the 2018 term, Justice Roberts aligned with Justice Kavanaugh in 89% of 5-4 decisions, Justice Alito in 85% of such decisions, and Justice Thomas in 80%. In contrast, he aligned with Justices Ginsburg and Breyer in 15% of 5-4 decisions and with Justices Kagan and Sotomayor in 10% of such decisions. During the 2018 term, Roberts was the pivotal swing vote siding with liberal justices in just two split decisions, two fewer than Justice Gorsuch.
And Lin Wood is still not our friend.
So, please, where do you think the Justice that President Biden replaces Roberts with will fall out in these numbers? Fortunately for the country, it is highly unlikely that Chief Justice Roberts takes Lin Wood's idiotic advice and resigns.