“How Different Are the Trump Judges?”
A new paper by Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati, “How Different Are the Trump Judges?” seeks to evaluate the quality of Trump’s judicial appointments as compared to their colleagues on the bench. It produces some interesting results. Here’s the abstract.
Donald J. Trump’s presidency broke the mold in many ways, including how to think about judicial appointments. Unlike other recent presidents, Trump was open about how “his” judges could be depended on to rule in particular ways on key issues important to voters he was courting (e.g., on issues such as guns, religion, and abortion). Other factors such as age and personal loyalty to Trump seemed important criteria. With selection criteria such as these, one might expect that Trump would select from a smaller pool of candidates than other presidents. Given the smaller pool and deviation from traditional norms of pic
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