Conservative Supreme Court justices disagree about how to read the law

The current Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

With a 6-3 majority, conservative justices on the Supreme Court may appear poised to hand down decisions that the Republican presidents who appointed them would applaud.

As a political scientist who has published several books on law and politics, I know it’s true that the political affiliation of the president who appointed a justice is a powerful indicator of how that justice will vote.