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The following sortable table [a] lists the lifetime percentage liberal scores of Supreme Court justices as compiled in the Supreme Court Database. [44] [45] The table shows data for justices whose service began at or after the 1946 term; the data ends with the 2016–2017 term.
Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.
WOLF: The Barrett-focused story is about how she came to side with the court’s liberal justices in an abortion rights-related case in Idaho, an example of the court’s women forming a bloc. I ...
There are only three liberal justices on the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor (bottom left), Elena Kagan (bottom right) and Ketanji Brown Jackson (top right) (AFP via Getty Images)
Supreme Court justices have life tenure, meaning that they serve until they die, resign, retire, or are impeached and removed from office. For the 107 non-incumbent justices, the average length of service was 6,203 days (16 years, 359 days). [1] [A] The longest serving justice was William O. Douglas, with a tenure of 13,358 days (36
The dangers of open-ended Supreme Court terms are illustrated by the case of Ginsburg, a liberal icon who hung on through repeated bouts of cancer until she died in 2020 at age 87, long past the ...
Also note that the nature of the cases the Supreme Court chooses to hear and which questions they choose to address may lead the justices to appear more liberal or conservative than they would if they were hearing a different set of cases and chose to answer a different set of questions; the Court accepts only 100–200 of the more than 7,000 ...
U.S. Supreme Court, 1932. During the 1930s, the Supreme Court contained both a solid liberal bloc and a solid conservative bloc. The four conservative Justices, known as "The Four Horsemen," were James McReynolds, George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter and Pierce Butler.