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Full-Text Articles in Law and Politics
If It Looks Like A Super Pac, Acts Like A Super Pac, And Is Restricted Like A Super Pac, Then Treat It Like A Super Pac: Why Contribution Limits On A Hybrid Pac’S Independent-Expenditure Arm Are Impermissible, Jacob N. Kipp
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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The Second Dimension Of The Supreme Court, Joshua B. Fischman, Tonja Jacobi
The Second Dimension Of The Supreme Court, Joshua B. Fischman, Tonja Jacobi
William & Mary Law Review
Describing the Justices of the Supreme Court as liberals and conservatives has become so standard and the left-right division on the Court is considered so entrenched that any deviation from that pattern is treated with surprise. Attentive Court watchers know that the Justices are not just politicians in robes, deciding each case on a purely ideological basis. Yet the increasingly influential empirical legal studies literature assumes just that that a left-right ideological dimension fully describes the Supreme Court. We show that there is a second, more legally-focused dimension of judicial decision making. A continuum between legalism and pragmatism also divides …
Does The 'Mcconnell Principle' Make Sense?, Jeffrey Bellin
Does The 'Mcconnell Principle' Make Sense?, Jeffrey Bellin
Popular Media
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Presupposing Corruption: Access, Influence, And The Future Of The Pay-To-Play Legal Framework, Allison C. Davis
Presupposing Corruption: Access, Influence, And The Future Of The Pay-To-Play Legal Framework, Allison C. Davis
William & Mary Business Law Review
Political spending, in all of its various permutations, lies at the nexus between campaign finance law and pay-to-play law. Both of these legal doctrines seek to minimize the corrupting effects of money upon elected officials and candidates, and both impose various caps and restrictions on political contributions in order to do so. Over the past half-century, however, the Supreme Court has struggled to define what sort of activity constitutes corruption in the political sphere. In light of its decisions in 2010s Citizens United v. FEC and 2014s McCutcheonv. FECtwo seminal cases that dramatically altered campaign finance regulation the Court now …
How The Supreme Court Can Change Politics As Usual, Jeffrey Bellin
How The Supreme Court Can Change Politics As Usual, Jeffrey Bellin
Popular Media
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'"Ideology" Or "Situation Sense"? An Experimental Investigation Of Motivated Reasoning And Professional Judgment, Dan M. Kahan, David Hoffman, Danieli Evans, Neal Devins, Eugene Lucci, Katherine Cheng
'"Ideology" Or "Situation Sense"? An Experimental Investigation Of Motivated Reasoning And Professional Judgment, Dan M. Kahan, David Hoffman, Danieli Evans, Neal Devins, Eugene Lucci, Katherine Cheng
Faculty Publications
This Article reports the results of a study on whether political predispositions influence judicial decisionmaking. The study was designed to overcome the two principal limitations on existing empirical studies that purport to find such an influence: the use of nonexperimental methods to assess the decisions of actual judges; and the failure to use actual judges in ideologically-biased-reasoning experiments. The study involved a sample of sitting judges (n = 253), who, like members of a general public sample (n = 800), were culturally polarized on climate change, marijuana legalization and other contested issues. When the study subjects were assigned to analyze …