Comments on: Bloc voting and individual independence at the Supreme Court https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/09/bloc-voting-and-individual-independence-at-the-supreme-court/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:28:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: jdgalt https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/09/bloc-voting-and-individual-independence-at-the-supreme-court/comment-page-1/#comment-356030 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:28:57 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73589#comment-356030 Some Justices turn out to disagree so sharply with the presidents who appointed them that you have to wonder if it was just a mistake, or the Justice actually played the system by hiding his views until he was appointed and could safely rule as he pleased.

The #1 justice I would place in this category is Anthony Kennedy, who is pretty far left but was appointed by Reagan. Others who may fit it are Sotomayor (quite moderate for an Obama appointee) and Gorsuch (whose failure to uphold Trump’s immigration decisions was quite a disappointment, one that Trump probably didn’t see coming).

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