Ideologische Neigungen aktueller Richter des Obersten Gerichtshofs der Vereinigten Staaten [OC]

So Thomas is clearly on the asshole spectrum

R package ggplot2 code used. And it is [here](https://gist.github.com/cavedave/83c0718b9856c4b5157640f040d191cd) if you want to remix the graph

Data from [Martin-Quinn scores](https://mqscores.wustl.edu/measures.php)

I made this [graph ages ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/dw79y2/ideological_leanings_of_current_united_states/) but a lot of them have died and there are new ones since

Ideology does not map neatly to non lay usages. Their is a wikipedia article explaining the reasoning [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_leanings_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_justices). ‚In modern discourse, the justices of the Court are often categorized as having conservative, moderate, or liberal [philosophies of law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_law) and of [judicial interpretation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_interpretation). It has long been commonly assumed that justices‘ votes are a reflection of their [judicial decision-making philosophy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence) as well as their [ideological leanings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology), [personal attitudes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_(psychology)), [values](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(personal_and_cultural)), [political philosophies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophies), or policy preferences‘

How tf is Sotomayor somehow more extreme than Thomas?? That dude is off his goddamn rocker
Something doesn’t add up here

I mean, this shit is kinda hilarious of you look at what happened in 2025.

Useless as well.

There’s a reason we call stops based on racial profiling without probable cause “Kavanaugh stops”.

Would you say that is a moderate or centrist position?

What is the measurement here? How do we measure “0”? Is it comparatively or absolute?

You need to flip your axes. The y axis is for your dependent variable. You wanted to make a graph of how their leanings have changed over time, not how time has changed in response to their leanings.

I’m immediately skeptical of any rating system that says the neutral position is closer to most of the Conservative justices than the Democrat-elected ones, but I haven’t looked into the methodology. Is it taking some reasonable technical view of their positions, or is it arguing that a politically centrist position would be a little to the left of the justices that said that the US president is above the law?

How was determined ehat „0“ is? I would guess this measures deviation from the court’s decision and therefore portrays the conservatives as „centrist“ because tgey controlled the court for decades? No matter them constantly overruling decades or centuries-old precedent?