Fact Check: Do the Liberal Supreme Court Justices 'Always' Vote Together?
Summary
President Donald Trump said the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices always vote together, criticizing the conservative justices for not doing the same. However, the three liberal justices often vote together but sometimes disagree on cases, so they do not always stick together.Key Facts
- The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority.
- The three liberal justices are Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
- These liberal justices usually vote together but have differences on some cases.
- For example, Kagan and Sotomayor disagreed with Jackson in a case about banning conversion therapy for minors.
- In another case, Kagan voted differently from the other liberals on counting late mail ballots.
- A 2022 Harvard Law Review study showed the liberal justices agreed 84% to 93% of the time, not 100%.
- All three liberal justices voted against President Trump’s tariffs earlier in the year.
- President Trump criticized the court’s conservative justices for not always voting as a group.
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