To what degree is the legitimacy of the US Supreme Court currently at risk? Perhaps the
most widely accepted view of how the Supreme Court acquires and maintains its legitimacy …

The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme stress, if not crisis, as it
seems to be losing its legitimacy with at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is …

ABSTRACT This Article on Richard Fallon's Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
focuses on public acceptance of the Supreme Court's authority, what Fallon calls …

Relying on theories of motivated reasoning, I hypothesize that individuals who favor a
nominee will prefer a legalistic confirmation hearing, while those who oppose a nominee will …

Significant changes to the federal judicial confirmation process have manifested over the
past decade, including multiple procedural reforms in the United States Senate. We argue …

Conventional wisdom suggests that judicial legitimacy should be relatively unaffected by
satisfaction with the ideological direction of judicial policy making. Recent studies challenge …

Is support for the US Supreme Court stable over time? Recent studies present conflicting
evidence about the extent to which dissatisfaction with the Court's performance affects its …

Do people fundamentally perceive the Supreme Court as a political institution? Despite the
central importance of this question to theories of public evaluations of the Court and its …

One of the more important innovations in the study of how citizens assess the US Supreme
Court is the ideological updating model, which assumes that citizens grant legitimacy to the …

Yearly, across state legislatures, lawmakers introduce court-curbing bills designed to curtail
judicial power by limiting court independence and constraining court decision-making …