Supreme Court · Associate Justice
Arthur Goldberg
Democratic appointee: Appointed by John F. Kennedy (D)
Served 1962–1965 · 3 terms
Confirmed by voice vote
Biography
Arthur Joseph Goldberg was an American politician and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. secretary of labor, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 6th United States ambassador to the United Nations.
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Ideology over time
Goldberg and the 8 justices who overlapped with Goldberg, 1962–1964
- Arthur Goldberg
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
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How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Goldberg sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Goldberg’s range across terms
Served alongside Goldberg
8 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Goldberg.
How Goldberg voted
Every argued case Goldberg took part in, newest first, with how Goldberg voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.
Data notes
The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).