Where The Supreme Court Is And How It Got Here Opinion
Five years after Neil Gorsuch was confirmed, and in the second term with Amy Coney Barrett on the bench, the Republican-appointed majority asserted itself. The statistics bear this out: 14 of the term’s 60 opinions in argued cases involved a 6-3 split by party of presidential appointment, to which can be added 10 5-4 decisions, in all of which the three liberal justices—Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—stuck together....