{"id":327,"date":"2026-07-02T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:44:32","slug":"what-we-learned-about-the-court-this-term-an-animated-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"What we learned about the court this term: an animated explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are a whole lot of strongly held beliefs about how the Supreme Court votes. Many of these involve the court\u2019s perceived ideological divide: there are six republican-appointed justices and three democratic-appointed justices. So, as the narrative goes, you get a whole lot of 6-3 decisions split along those lines.<\/p>\n

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But how true is that, really? This animated explainer, the third in a\u00a0series\u00a0of animated videos done in partnership with\u00a0Briefly, guides you through which justices dominated\u00a0this term, which judicial alliances mattered most, and whether the court’s so-called ideological divide is more hype than reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n