Textualism and Constraint on the Supreme Court

• In Event: Judicial Reasoning

Brief Overview

We use novel Supreme Court data to test whether self-identifying textualists vote in a manner reflecting greater ideological constraint than non-textualists in statutory interpretation cases, as claimed for decades.

Authors

• Sean Farhang, University of California, Berkeley

• Margaret Lemos, Duke University

• Gregory J. Wawro, Columbia University