Who said what at the Supreme Court and what does it mean?  This Times article is one of many trying to read the tea leaves on Caperton v. Massey Coal.

The Supreme Court appeared split along familiar ideological lines at an argument Tuesday over whether a state court judge should have disqualified himself from an appeal of a $50 million jury verdict against an energy company whose chief executive had spent $3 million to elect him.

Is this the best The Times can do to frame the issue neutrally?