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Why Conservatives Care More About the Supreme Court
Liberals sometimes wonder why their opponents have been so aggrieved by judicial politics. Now they’re learning.
Motivated.
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Liberals who wonder why they are poised to lose the battle for the Supreme Court have noticed an asymmetry in the politics of judicial confirmations. For at least a generation, conservatives have cared about the courts a lot more than they have.
You can see it in the exit polls from the presidential election of 2016. Voters who chose their candidate on the basis of judicial appointments broke heavily for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.