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Supreme Court that Left calls ‘biased’ was near unanimous 62% of the time

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The Supreme Court is once again under attack from those calling for packing, or even eliminating, the institution as hopelessly ideological and divided.

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently proclaimed that “The Supreme Court’s conservative majority keeps choosing ideology over impartiality.”

Other media outlets reported “devastating” polling showing the Court as unpopular and losing institutional respect.

It is all clearly alarming — despite being entirely untrue.

Looking at the actual rulings disproves the argument of a “biased” court.

The Court ruled unanimously in more than 44% of cases, slightly up from the prior year.

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When you add the roughly 11% of opinions that were 8-1 and 6% that were 7-1 or 7-2, the rate of unanimous or nearly unanimous jumps to 62%.

In over 77% of cases, there was no ideological split in the resulting opinions.

While slightly up,........

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