It has always been hard left. For years, I couldn't watch because the judges actually followed the law and listened to defense counsel arguments, and that just betrayed all reality to the point that I couldn't watch. Then, I finally began watching SVU, which I thought was well done but less about the courts than about the cops. L&O CI was the same way. But they all tend to be leftist, esp. the Jack McCoy character. Funny to see see Sam Waterston (name?) who plays McCoy do T. Rowe Price commercials. And, the leftist whacked out theories they prosecute cases on ..... so funny to be hard to watch. I wish the local prosecutors in my primary county were like the ones on L&O.
They'd be lots easier to work with.