You Think You Know the Supreme Court. You Don't. Everyone has an opinion about the Supreme Court. Almost nobody understands it. You have heard it a thousand times — six conservatives, three liberals, game over. You have watched the confirmation battles, read the outraged headlines, listened to the confident pundits explain exactly what the Court will do next. And yet the rulings keep surprising you. The justices keep voting in ways that make no sense. The institution keeps defying the story everyone is telling about it. That is not a coincidence. That is a symptom of a broken framework. Here is what nobody is telling you: the 6-3 scoreboard is the most misleading number in American politics. It tells you who appointed whom. It tells you almost nothing about how the Court actually moves, decides, and surprises. While everyone is arguing about partisan counts, the real story — the one that actually predicts what the Court will do — is hiding in plain sight, completely invisible to anyone using the wrong tools to look for it. The Last Branch Standing gives you the right tools. ABC News pundit and top legal podcaster Sarah W. Oxford pulls back the curtain on the institution that shapes every corner of American life — and rebuilds your understanding from the ground up. Inside these pages you will discover the X-Axis trap that keeps even smart people permanently confused, the Y-Axis framework that finally explains why Brett Kavanaugh agrees with Elena Kagan more than Neil Gorsuch, the 3-3-3 structure that is more accurate than any partisan count, and the insider world of clerks, gossip, and institutional drama that the marble exterior was never designed to reveal. You will understand how cases land at the Court's door, why Amy Coney Barrett became the justice nobody predicted, what the legitimacy crisis actually means for American democracy, and whether any of the reform proposals can actually fix it. This is not a liberal book. It is not a conservative book. It is an honest book — the one the Supreme Court conversation has been desperately missing. The Court belongs to all of us. It is time to actually understand it. Grab your copy today.