Well the one thing that we have learned over the years with SCOTUS judges, Roberts presently, is that once they sit on that bench they can't be predicted 100%. Speaking of SCOTUS, RBG is a key to understating the intensity of the current campaign among other issues as her cancer has returned. If re-elected Trump appointing a Conservative originalist in her place is a sure bet, that swings all those 5 to 4 "progressive" decisions the other way.
But if you are interested in such you might want to opine on how Judge Sullivan is acting towards Gen. Flynn and how that will turn out after review of the full court. Its a prefect example of a political judge becoming not the arbiter between two opposing parties but taking sides.
Anyone who thinks judges are not political need only watch how cases are shopped so as to be before certain judges in certain circuits. They have been political since colonial times, more so now.