Strategic Departure in the Federal District Courts: Ideological Congruence and Modern Partisanship

• In Event: Understanding The Source and Influence of Litigation

Brief Overview

Employs ideal point scores for district court judges between 1969 and 2015 to measure how judges respond to changes in political climates as they approach departure decisions.

Authors

• Jake Stanton Truscott, University of Georgia

• Mackenzie Thomas Vaughn, University of Georgia