Visualizing the Ideological History of SCOTUS

langelgjm writes "An interesting exercise in quantifying and visualizing ideological shifts, the website ScotusScores.com tracks changes in the ideological history of the US Supreme Court from 1937 to 2007. Ideological positions are quantified using Martin-Quinn scores, and the chart highlights the often-bumpy transitions (Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas), as well as tendencies within each Justice's career."

Comments

Martin-Quinn scores are bogus

[Anonymous Coward]

Most political historians have long ago switched to the proper 4-Act Quinn Martin system.

Re:Martin-Quinn scores are bogus

[iluvcapra]

Those only work in the streets of San Francisco ;)

Re:What about Jews?

[squiggly12]

LOL forget about that little checkbox called AC?

Re:Going to be more changes soon

[AuMatar]

Ginsburg, unless forced to resign by illness, will wait until after the 2010 midterms. All signs point to the democrats getting a greater than 60 seat majority (likely 62, with the possibility of as much as 64), making it so Republicans would need democrats to vote against stopping a filibuster. Which isn't going to happen.