From a New York Times column by Jesse Wegman and David Firestone headlined “The 2023 SCOTUS Awards”:
The headlines that emerged from the 2022-23 term of the Supreme Court conveyed the brutal impact of several big decisions, but they sometimes missed the human elements that made these opinions so startling — how the conservative majority favored one oppressed group but not another or imposed conflicting rules on who can bring a case. As depressing as the outcomes often were, these tortuous paths of jurisprudence were often absurd.