Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images A new study has bolstered a scathing dissent from liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that warned the court appeared to favor the rich. The study, published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research , investigated whether the Supreme Court has contributed to rising income inequality by ruling in favor of policies that favor wealthy parties. Its authors—two academics from Columbia University in New York and one from Yale University—found that in cases pitting the rich against the poor, Republican appointees were far more likely than their Democratic colleagues to side with the wealthier party. Read more at The Daily Beast.