Adam Feldman watches Supreme Court trends: voting blocs both usual and unusual, numbers of concurring and dissenting opinions, and other analytical ways of predicting outcomes. In our discussion, we cover:

• Recent polls disapprove of how the Supreme Court “is handling its job.” What does “handling its job” mean? Does it mean outcomes, or the decision-making process? And how does Adam rate how the Supreme Court is handling its job?
• Is this a 6-3 court? Or a 3-3-3 court?
• Is it fair to group justices along lines of “institutionalist” and “non-institutionalist,” as some experts have done?

We then tee things up to do a round up of the 2023-2024 term.

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Other items discussed in the episode:

• Empirical SCOTUS, https://empiricalscotus.com/
• Videos from this episode will be posted at Tim Kowal’s YouTube channel.
• Legal Data Analytics | Optimized Legal Solutions (feldyfied.wixsite.com)