They haven't surprised me. People act surprised that Gorsuch took a textualist approach to the civil rights act but he was always going to do that. The meat of their jurisprudence is in decisions that echo Lochner or Chevron where they will evicerate workers rights or regulatory authority and prevent the US government from implementing policy.

They're quite happy to look libertarian on torts or perhaps even do the barest of window dressing on big politics questions like Roe but I'm more worried about them eviscerating the ACA. I suspect it's even odds on that piece of legislation only because ruling against it imperils the legitimacy of the court, but any future legislation that does broad regulatory changes won't survive this court.

That means we're fucked on climate change.