{"id":11482,"date":"2023-08-18T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:21:10","slug":"the-supreme-court-had-a-few-surprises-this-year-that-doesnt-make-it-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11482","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Had A Few Surprises This Year. That Doesn&#8217;t Make It Moderate."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;the fact that they\u2019re unwilling to give conservatives a win in every case may say as much about what advocates are asking for as it does about the court\u2019s ideological bent. The two big surprises this term \u2014 the ruling involving the Constitution\u2019s elections clause and the decision involving the Voting Rights Act \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/supreme-court-kill-voting-rights-act\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were both cases<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-the-supreme-court-could-turbocharge-gerrymandering-just-in-time-for-2024\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous courts<\/a>&nbsp;probably wouldn\u2019t have agreed to hear at all. The aggressive arguments in both cases are just two examples of the way the court\u2019s docket is changing, with right-wing legal groups and politicians asking for much further-reaching outcomes than they would have even five or six years ago.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-supreme-court-had-a-few-surprises-this-year-that-doesnt-make-it-moderate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-supreme-court-had-a-few-surprises-this-year-that-doesnt-make-it-moderate\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the fact that they\u2019re unwilling to give conservatives a win in every case may say as much about what advocates are asking for as it does about the court\u2019s ideological bent. The two big surprises this term \u2014 the ruling involving the Constitution\u2019s elections clause and the decision involving the Voting Rights Act \u2014 were both cases that previous courts probably wouldn\u2019t have agreed to hear at all. The aggressive arguments in both cases are just two examples of the way the court\u2019s docket is changing, with right-wing legal groups and politicians asking for much further-reaching outcomes than they would have even five or six years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[790,772,1213,528],"class_list":["post-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-courts","tag-ideology","tag-judiciary","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}