Justice Barrett has joined the bandwagon complaining that folks only describe as “big” cases those that divide #SCOTUS ideologically. That’s not only belied by tons of actual evidence, but it obscures the extent to which it’s often the holdings the Court *chooses* to adopt that provoke such splits:

Bonus 226: What Makes a Case "...

Bonus 226: What Makes a Case "Big"?

Some thoughts on the (silly) efforts to push back against the voluminous evidence that, in most of its "big" rulings, the Supreme Court divides ideologically.

^{Steve Vladeck (One First)}