Not surprisingly, most of the collection, including the works in the present exhibition, is on the conservative side: most of it dates from the 1880's to the 1930's, and modernism does not rear its head at all.
The decision, United States v. Santos, No. 06-1005, produced an unusual lineup, with two of the most conservative justices on one side and two on the other.
Mr. Old, 48, said that Democrats traditionally dominated elections in his native Jefferson County, and that when there were no options in the Republican primary, "that means you pick the most qualified, most conservative candidate the other side offers".
According to a comprehensive examination of 96 Senate votes taken in 2010, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. R-Ariz.with seven of his collealong, voted most often on the conservative side.
The two swing justices who have had the most influence on the court, restraining its most conservative members and sometimes siding with the moderate-liberal minority, are Justice O'Connor and Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of last week's gay-rights ruling.
Justice Marshall, the only other African-American to serve on the court, was by this measure the most liberal, voting for the conservative side 21percentt of the time.
By the early nineties, even most conservative Republicans eschewed the supply-side label.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, two of the most conservative Republicans on the committee, sided with Ms. Gillibrand, while seven Democrats and an independent peeled away.
In stepped Manhattan Theater Club, a company most consider to be on the conservative side in its programming.
But she is at her most entertaining when she shows her conservative side, as when she relates her reaction to "The Vagina Monologues".
