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The Polarization of the Supreme Court

By David Paul Kuhn
The Supreme Court has gradually come to act more like a political institution. The share of one-vote majority rulings has risen more than four-fold in the past six decades, compared to the half-century prior, based on a RealClearPolitics analysis of rulings from 1801 to the present. John Roberts has presided over a slightly larger share of one-vote majority opinions (22 percent) than any chief... (Read Full Article)

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