Four of nine current Supreme Court justices—Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—were confirmed by a Senate majority that collectively won a minority of the popular vote in Senate elections and represented less than half of the American population. And three of them—Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett—were also nominated by a president who lost the popular vote. Had majorities prevailed in presidential and Senate elections, then, three—and possibly four—of the Supreme Court’s most conservative justices would not be on the court. In all likelihood, three of
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