Legitimacy is a complex and puzzling concept. But in legal discourse, we have an intuitive
sense that illegitimate means something more than erroneous or incorrect. The term …

Conventional wisdom says that individuals' ideological preferences do not influence
Supreme Court legitimacy orientations. Most work is based on the assumption that the …

What motivates political actors with diverging interests to respect the Supreme Court's
authority? A popular answer is that the public serves as the guardian of judicial …

How do Americans evaluate potential US Supreme Court candidates? Using a novel, two-
part conjoint experiment, I show that respondents put high importance on the political …

In Public Opinion: Democratic Ideals, Democratic Practice, Fourth Edition, Clawson and
Oxley link the enduring normative questions of democratic theory to existing empirical …

We examine whether public opinion leads Supreme Court justices to alter the content of
their opinions. We argue that when justices anticipate public opposition to their decisions …

Contemporary US Supreme Court nominations are unavoidably and inevitably political.
Although observers worry that political contestation over nominations undermines support …

Objective We analyze public views of the Supreme Court following the confirmation hearings
of Brett M. Kavanaugh. Methods We distributed an online survey days after the Senate …

In Gill v. Whitford, 1 the Supreme Court turned aside the most promising vehicle for
adjudicating partisan gerrymandering claims since the Court first fully addressed the issue …

Does the political nature of modern judicial confirmation hearings lead the public to think of
the Supreme Court as a political body? Some political actors inevitably attack the institution …