By now, you’ve probably heard a great deal about the Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also known as the emergency or “shadow” docket – which, although it technically refers to […]

Judges, like all of us, possess multiple intersecting identities. Drawing on social identity theory, we examine how gender, race, and partisanship jointly influ...

Political Behavior - We argue that characteristics of unelected officials directly influence individuals’ perceptions and evaluations of them. These evaluations then have indirect, downstream...

Political commentators have noted a peculiar aspect of present-day political dysfunction in the United States: Americans continue to “revere” the U.S. Constitut...

The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) wins more cases before the US Supreme Court than any other party. Recent scholarship shows that justices are most like...

Table of contents for The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 714, 1

What determines public support for judicial nominees? We argue that support for nominees is based on policy congruence, and a nominee’s candor at her confirmati...

Members of the press have argued that broadcasting opinion announcements would increase the high court’s accessibility and transparency — but so far, the justices have yet to weigh in.

A groundbreaking study of when, where, and whom police shoot in America’s largest cities

Interest Groups & Advocacy - This study evaluates the influence of partisan identity on individuals’ reactions to interest group advertisements about US Supreme Court nominees. Using a...

The public expects courts to behave as legal institutions. But news media coverage of courts often contradicts that expectation. We argue that political framing – the media’s use of political, ideo...

Public debates rage over the importance of diversity. In attempts to inform such discourse, political scientists generally focus on individual-level characteris...