Although Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the United States' last nine presidential elections — 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 — Republicans have a 6-3 High Court supermajority. President Donald Trump appointed three justices during his first term, while former President Joe Biden only appointed one: Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is the Court's third Black justice. Jackson is the Court's first Black female justice, although two Black male justices were confirmed before her: the late Thurgood Marshall and far-right Clarence Thomas. "On Monday, (October 6), the nine justices of America's top court will assemble at the start of a new judicial term," Pilkington explains. "Last term," Pilkington observes, "Jackson wrote 10 dissents — more than any other justice, including the ever-vociferous, far-right Clarence Thomas with nine.