State Supreme Courts ideological breakdown

[smoltchanov]

2 of the Republican appointees should clearly count as moderates in Michigan.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/michigan-supreme-court-election-results/1896783002/

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigans-republican-black-sheep-justice-winning-some-unlikely-allies

"Meanwhile, a Supreme Court term was underway, during which she joined in decisions with fellow Republican-nominated Justice David Viviano and two Democratic-nominated justices, Bridget McCormack and Richard Bernstein, on most of the court’s major opinions that term."

There were major 4/3 rulings upholding a gun control law and the redistricting commission ballot referendum where Clement and Viviano joined the 2 Dem appointees (2 at that time, a 3rd Dem unseated one of the other 2 more hardline Republican justices last November).  The GOP explicitly disowned Justice Clement in her reelection campaign (which she won), so she is essentially an independent now.   

May be - all Republican judges are authomatically marked as "conservative"?

[smoltchanov]

2 of the Republican appointees should clearly count as moderates in Michigan.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/michigan-supreme-court-election-results/1896783002/

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigans-republican-black-sheep-justice-winning-some-unlikely-allies

"Meanwhile, a Supreme Court term was underway, during which she joined in decisions with fellow Republican-nominated Justice David Viviano and two Democratic-nominated justices, Bridget McCormack and Richard Bernstein, on most of the court’s major opinions that term."

There were major 4/3 rulings upholding a gun control law and the redistricting commission ballot referendum where Clement and Viviano joined the 2 Dem appointees (2 at that time, a 3rd Dem unseated one of the other 2 more hardline Republican justices last November).  The GOP explicitly disowned Justice Clement in her reelection campaign (which she won), so she is essentially an independent now.   

May be - all Republican judges are authomatically marked as "conservative"?

No, because I know one of the moderates indicated in Arkansas are a Republican.

Thanks! But then - i don't understand Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Sure, Republicans held a governorships for many years there, but they (Republican governors) were not especially conservative. Why then Supreme Courts of these states are so conservative?

[smoltchanov]

2 of the Republican appointees should clearly count as moderates in Michigan.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/michigan-supreme-court-election-results/1896783002/

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigans-republican-black-sheep-justice-winning-some-unlikely-allies

"Meanwhile, a Supreme Court term was underway, during which she joined in decisions with fellow Republican-nominated Justice David Viviano and two Democratic-nominated justices, Bridget McCormack and Richard Bernstein, on most of the court’s major opinions that term."

There were major 4/3 rulings upholding a gun control law and the redistricting commission ballot referendum where Clement and Viviano joined the 2 Dem appointees (2 at that time, a 3rd Dem unseated one of the other 2 more hardline Republican justices last November).  The GOP explicitly disowned Justice Clement in her reelection campaign (which she won), so she is essentially an independent now.   

May be - all Republican judges are authomatically marked as "conservative"?

No, because I know one of the moderates indicated in Arkansas are a Republican.

Thanks! But then - i don't understand Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Sure, Republicans held a governorships for many years there, but they (Republican governors) were not especially conservative. Why then Supreme Courts of these states are so conservative?

Most of the justices in Mass have been appointed by Baker

Who is, surely, NOT a conservative...

[smoltchanov]

2 of the Republican appointees should clearly count as moderates in Michigan.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/michigan-supreme-court-election-results/1896783002/

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigans-republican-black-sheep-justice-winning-some-unlikely-allies

"Meanwhile, a Supreme Court term was underway, during which she joined in decisions with fellow Republican-nominated Justice David Viviano and two Democratic-nominated justices, Bridget McCormack and Richard Bernstein, on most of the court’s major opinions that term."

There were major 4/3 rulings upholding a gun control law and the redistricting commission ballot referendum where Clement and Viviano joined the 2 Dem appointees (2 at that time, a 3rd Dem unseated one of the other 2 more hardline Republican justices last November).  The GOP explicitly disowned Justice Clement in her reelection campaign (which she won), so she is essentially an independent now.   

May be - all Republican judges are authomatically marked as "conservative"?

No, because I know one of the moderates indicated in Arkansas are a Republican.

Thanks! But then - i don't understand Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Sure, Republicans held a governorships for many years there, but they (Republican governors) were not especially conservative. Why then Supreme Courts of these states are so conservative?

Most of the justices in Mass have been appointed by Baker

Who is, surely, NOT a conservative...

His judicial appointments are.

Interesting case then... It seemed to me, that usually governors appoint judges with ideological views similar to their own...