Supreme Court Justices Ideological Spectrum

The graph below shows the ideological leaning of each justice by calendar year from 1950 to 2011.

Supreme court justices ideological spectrum - We combined the jcs and martin quinn scores for. The death of justice ruth bader ginsburg comes just as the supreme court was about to hear a case challenging the aca. An analysis by political scientists lee epstein andrew d. The scale and zero point roughly correspond to dw nominate common space scores but otherwise are arbitrary.

To approximate one we rely on a separate ideological measure for appeals and circuit court judges known as the judicial common space jcs score. Martin and kevin quinn places judges on an ideological spectrum called the judicial common space conservative justices receive scores from 0 to 1 liberal justices from 1 to 0. Sonia sotomayor 0 521 ruth bader ginsburg 0 518 elena kagan 0 302. How to read the chart.

As in the graph above each unique color represents a particular supreme court seat. In recent years legal scholars judges and justices on all sides of the ideological spectrum have criticized the legal doctrine known as qualified immunity arguing that it is not grounded in. But the new supreme court would have five justices at the far right of the ideological spectrum.