Case Issue Area and the Propensity for Counter-Attitudinal Voting at the United States Supreme Court, 1946-2016

• In Event: Constitutional Interpretivism, Morality, and Judicial Behavior

Brief Overview

From 1946-2016 we find that in due process cases, a justice’s ideological positions are more likely to contradict their ideological preferences in other issue areas, thus, these cases will lead to a greater propensity for counter-attitudinal voting

Authors

• Abbie Saulsbury, University of Kentucky

• Colin Glennon, East Tennessee State University