> All three of Trump's appointments are more conservative than Kennedy Would it be hopelessly optimistic to suggest one might want to qualify that and say that

> All three of Trump's appointments are more conservative than Kennedy Would it be hopelessly optimistic to suggest one might want to qualify that and say that "based on their previous decisions they appear to be more conservative than Kennedy"? > SCOTUS tends to be less ideologically rigid than the other major institutions Yet even in here, commentary on appointments to SCOTUS appears to show a fair degree of ideological rigidity. > the justices are much more aligned with their associated parties As I said before, at least from the outside it looks like there is a fair degree of non-alignment within the parties on major topics.