Alito surpasses Thomas as most conservative justice on Supreme Court
Breccan F. Thies
Justice Samuel Alito has surpassed Justice Clarence Thomas as the most conservative justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to new data.
While Thomas has consistently been the most conservative justice of the current court for years, Alito had the edge this term, which saw major decisions on freedom of speech, student loans, and affirmative action.
The data also show that the court is consistently more conservative with its 6-3 majority and Justice Brett Kavanaugh holding the spot as the ideological median justice.
Preliminary "ideological continuum" data from the "Martin-Quinn" scoring system, which uses data points such as voting records to measure judicial ideology, show Alito with about 2.5 points in the conservative column, while Thomas had about 2.3.
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