A common complaint about the current Supreme Court is that its six Republican-appointed justices decide cases according to partisan preference. But two recent emergency-docket disputes involving the midterm elections suggest that picture is too simple, according to SCOTUSblog.
In both cases, the Court had the opportunity to intervene in a way that would have aligned with conservative or Republican interests. Instead, it refused to become partisan, or at least declined to embrace the most overtly partisan outcome available.
The decisions do not prove the Court is apolitical, but they do complicate the narrative that every high-profile ruling is driven by party loyalty. The source notes that these cases are significant precisely because they show the emergency docket is not automatically a tool for one side.