The Rule of Four and the Shrinking Docket

• In Event: Agenda Setting and Decision Making on the USSC

Brief Overview

Formal adjudication by the Court requires four judges agreeing to grant a writ of certiorari. We show how appointing more extreme judges to the Court raises the potential costs of losing a case and, therefore, grows the gridlock interval.

Authors

• Amna Salam, University of Rochester

• Lawrence Rothenberg, University of Rochester