Justice Thomas, an anomaly
Willke (who, btw, wins the award for blog with ugliest design yet great content) looks at SCOTUS conservative/liberal trends by justice:
Most Justices in recent memory have grown more liberal during their term of service on the court. Justice Rehnquist started at 3.98 and ended at 1.5, for example. O’Connor started at 1.5 and ended at -0.04. Blackmun started at 1.9 and ended at -1.86. Powell started at 1.52 and ended at 0.76. Marshall started at -0.96 and ended at -4.31.
Even Scalia who reached peak conservativism in 2000 at 3.47 has declined every year since then to his current 2.71. Justice Thomas, meanwhile, has just grown more and more conservative during his tenure.(positive numbers = conservative; negative = liberal)
Full graph here.
