This time, we’re reviewing the individual Justices’ rates of voting with the majority during the years 2010 to 2020 in order to discern which Justices might have been driving the small changes in the unanimity rate.
In Table 1512, we review the data for Chief Justice Ronald George and Justices Corrigan, Kennard, Kruger, Werdegar and
This time, we’re looking at the Supreme Court’s unanimity rate in civil cases between 2010 and 2020, tracking the data alongside changes in the Court’s party alignment.
Between 2010 and 2014, the Court continued to have six Republican nominees and only one Democrat. Although the Table seems to suggest a sharp drop in the unanimity
The party alignment of the Supreme Court remained at six Republican appointees and one Democratic appointee from 2000 through 2009. Across the entire period, the unanimity rate was 66.05% – twenty points higher than the unanimity rate for the 1990s. The unanimity rate for 2000 was only 48.98%. It rose to 56.25% for 2001. After
This week, we’ve following up our discussion of the academic literature on panel effects with a review of the Court’s unanimity rates compared against the evolving party alignment of the Court.
For 1990 and part of 1991, the party alignment of the Court was five Republicans and two Democrats. For those two years, the Court’s