Is the Supreme Court really that divided? The facts say no.

Of all the ink spilled and soundbites recorded railing into the current iteration of the Supreme Court, nothing quite epitomizes the spirit of the prevailing critique than a July cover of The New Yorker . Posed for a portrait, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson look forward cool and defiantly, while the conservative appointees—Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—all look identical, because they all have President Donald Trump's face.

The gist is simple. That issue focused "on what appears to many to be an existential threat to democracy," the magazine wrote , which is "the far-right shift of the Supreme Court, and the conservative movement's plans to commandeer it."

That critique has pers