Nora Donnelly ’24, managing editor of the Voting Rights and Democracy Forum, and Fordham Law Professor Ethan Leib published an op-ed in The New York Times arguing that the Court is not as ideologically divided as those blockbuster cases may suggest.
In short, the Supreme Court operates much more functionally and consensually across its partisan divide than most people realize — and that fact ought to figure into how Americans judge a court that often gets caricatured.
Judged by a close look at the opinions of recent terms, the Roberts court is closer to a 9-to-0 court than it is a 6-to-3 court.
Read “The Supreme Court Is Not as Politicized as You May Think” in The New York Times.