Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dire warning comes true: study [View all]

By Alexander Willis
Published January 5, 2026 1:52 PM ET

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned last summer that her conservative colleagues on the bench were doing irreparable harm to the court’s image as they increasingly sided with the rich and powerful, and a new study published Monday appeared to validate those fears.

Published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the study found that since the 1950s, conservative Supreme Court justices increasingly issued rulings that favored the wealthy when compared to their liberal counterparts.

Researchers analyzed 1,782 Supreme Court cases and classified justices’ votes as either “pro-rich” – which they defined as a vote that produced an “outcome [that] would directly shift resources to the party that is more likely to be wealthy” – or “pro-poor.” Researchers found that conservative justices cast “pro-rich” votes 70% of the time by the end of 2022, a stark contrast to liberal justices’ 35% during the same time period.

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