The Supreme Court Really Did Move Right

Even beyond high-profile cases and slanted media coverage, the statistics do show a shift.

This was the year that the much-advertised, -expected, -feared, -longed-for conservative Supreme Court majority coalesced. After many false starts, misfires, and disappointments—going back to Richard Nixon’s pledge in the 1968 campaign to reverse the Warren Court’s activism, or even Dwight Eisenhower’s appointment of Earl Warren and Bill Brennan—conserv…