Yes, it is very conservative, no doubt, no doubt. But in some cases, depending on what the issues are, that really can make for very interesting bedfellows when it comes to the ruling. But on just the general idea, we can talk about this all day. We're both nerds. Like we can get into this. But we are. We have time for one more question for me to pose to you. And that was, what

advice would you give to people who want to understand the courts better? I'm Kimberly Atkinsor,

and this is Justice by Design. So the form of justice in the title that we're going to be talking about today

is a little different from what we usually do, but maybe not so much. I want to spend this

episode talking about justices, specifically the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. I've heard from a lot of listeners and

viewers questions about how to understand the court better, what they should be looking out for,

just asking a lot of general questions that I may not always have the answer to.

And yes, I have spent a lot of time studying the law, practicing law, covering the Supreme Court for, by and large, for going on 20 years now.

And there are a lot of things that I do know.

But there are a lot of things that I turn to others, the experts, to help me

understand more about the courts. And one of those is my guest today, Adam Feldman, who is the

creator and author of the Empirical Scotus blog and also the Legalitics substack newsletter.

And he is the former digital editor for SCOTUS blog where he used to produce these stat packs that as a journalist, like it was like fresh meat.

Like I just love those and diving into them and learning more about the court that you might miss, even

if you're watching every argument and keeping up to date on every case, to step back for

the big picture using data is so important.

And I think it's really crucially important right now as more people are looking, trying

to understand the courts and the judiciary as part of our government and our functioning democracy.

So, Adam, thank you so much for joining me today.

My pleasure. Thanks for having me on.

So I gave you a little bit of a bio, but I always start by asking my guest to introduce themselves a little bit.

Sort of tell us how you got to this place of looking at the SCOTUS through data.

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