# Did they lie during their Supreme Court confirmation hearings? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 2, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278 "2022-07-02T03:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/61 "2022-07-05T21:14:42Z")
If they were “simply subservient to the political desires of the GOP”, wouldn’t they be on the same side of the issues closer to 100% of the time? ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/62 "2022-07-05T21:17:36Z")
No, why would you think that? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/63 "2022-07-06T05:05:18Z")
Well, if they were actually dedicated to supporting a particular political party/organization/ideology, they could vote the same way in every case, with at least a 6-3 vote, and get “their” way. That’s not what happens, though. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/64 "2022-07-06T05:10:11Z")
All the Federalist Society cares about is that they vote together on certain key issues. Nobody is saying they are clones of each other. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/65 "2022-07-06T05:15:27Z")
It appears that it is your belief all the cases heard during a SCOTUS term intersect with partisan preferences. That is not the case—probably more than half of the cases heard are on pretty routine procedural matters. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/66 "2022-07-06T05:18:50Z")
Also, if they agreed on every single case on a 6-3 split, it would be pretty fucking obvious they were being controlled by an outside entity, wouldn’t it? They would have to be absolute idiots to go that route. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/67 "2022-07-06T18:58:46Z")
Why? What are we going to do, fire them? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/68 "2022-07-06T19:13:54Z")
Well, actually…yes. Impeachment. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/69 "2022-07-06T19:21:44Z")
Hell, we couldn’t get 45 out of office with _two_ impeachments and you think SCOTUS is more vulnerable? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/70 "2022-07-06T19:24:37Z")
Good luck with that. And I mean that seriously, I’d love to see some SCOTUS’s impeached, and I’d even more love to see the the legislature that does it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/71 "2022-07-06T19:26:00Z")
Doing something incredibly stupid like, say, voting in lock-step 6-3 on every single case that comes before them would certainly make it easier to do so. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/72 "2022-07-06T19:27:30Z")
Yeah, but unless 67 senators disagree with those rulings, nothing is going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/73 "2022-07-06T20:12:06Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > While Roberts and Kavanaugh joined the majority opinion 95% of the time this term, Gorsuch was in the majority only 75% of the time. Gorsuch seems to be a strict constructionist. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Doing something incredibly stupid like, say, voting in lock-step 6-3 on every single case that comes before them would certainly make it easier to do so. Nope. That is their right. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278/74 "2022-07-07T01:28:56Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > That is not the case—probably more than half of the cases heard are on pretty routine procedural matters. Right, but there must be some reason that Roberts & Kavanaugh voted the same way (practically) every single time, as did Kagan and Breyer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-lie-during-their-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/967278.md?page=3)