{"id":15758,"date":"2013-06-28T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/chart-of-the-week-supreme-court-justices-who-agrees-with-whom\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:30:36","slug":"chart-of-the-week-supreme-court-justices-who-agrees-with-whom","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/06\/28\/chart-of-the-week-supreme-court-justices-who-agrees-with-whom\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week: Supreme Court justices \u2014 who agrees with whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s one thing to talk about voting blocs on the Supreme Court &#8212; four conservative justices, four moderate-to-liberal ones and Anthony Kennedy in between, swinging back and forth like a pendulum. It&#8217;s another to see the actual voting patterns at work.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fine folks at SCOTUSblog, in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2013\/06\/final-october-term-2012-stat-pack\/\">end-of-term Stat Pack<\/a>, have charted how often each justice agreed or disagreed with his or her colleagues in the 78 cases decided by the Court in its just-ended term. This chart, which looks just at the 23 5-4 decisions, clearly shows how the justices align with, or against, each other on the most contentious cases:<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter responsive\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/06\/FT_13.06.27_JusticeAgreement.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"546\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the chart shows, Justices Ginsberg and Kagan not only agreed with each other in every 5-4 case, but both also disagreed with Justice Alito on every single one. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Sotomayor also found themselves on opposite sides of every 5-4 decision. It also shows that Kennedy, the Court&#8217;s acknowledged &#8220;swing vote,&#8221; was more likely to agree with the Court&#8217;s four most conservative justices (ranging from 52% to 73% agreement in the 5-4 decisions) than the moderate-to-liberal ones (30% to 43%).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to suggest a future Chart of the Week? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/facttank\">Tweet us<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to talk about voting blocs on the Supreme Court &#8212; four conservative justices, four moderate-to-liberal ones and Anthony Kennedy in between, swinging back and forth like a pendulum. 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