http://scotusscores.com/

Nifty.

Definately seemed to me the idea of Teh "evil leftist court" is a little overblown.

Assuming of course that you consider Martin-Quinn scores accurate (not that I don't).

Assuming of course that you consider Martin-Quinn scores accurate (not that I don't).

I give them the same credence as I do: Jan-Michael Vincent, or Jean-Claude Duvalier, or Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, or Tariq Abdul-Wahad, or Ban Ki-Moon, or Nouri Al-Maliki, or Karim Abdul-Jabbar, or Jean-Claude Van Damme, or Ray-J, or Misty May-Treanor, or Camilla Parker-Bowles, or Mary-Kate Olsen, or Maurice Jones-Drew, or Mark Linn-Baker, or Parliament-Funkadelic, or Steve-O, or Malcolm-Jamal Warner, or Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (actually, she was a believable author and researcher), or Chiang Kai-Shek, or Keisha Castle-Hughes, or Ice-T, or Shareef Abdur-Rahim, or Sun Yat-Sen, or Catherine Zeta-Jones, or Olivia Newton-John, or Leigh Taylor-Young, or Scooby-Doo, or Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, or Shirley Temple-Black, or Jean-Paul Sartre, or Heather Stewart-Whyte, or the A-Team, or Lynn-Holly Johnson, or Hawaii Five-O, or Wal-Mart.

In other words, any time I see a hyphenated name, I automatically take whatever is presented with a grain of salt. /shrug

Just one of my many quirks.

When you see "Martin-Quinn score", feel free to mentally replace it with:

Measures of judicial ideology developed by Andrew D. Martin (Washington University, School of Law) and Kevin M. Quinn (Harvard University, Department of Government).

If that eases your quirk.

It is interesting to see many of them gradually getting more liberal as their terms progress. Though I dare say the Supreme Court is inherently conservative in nature, its not surprising.