Was bork right about judges?

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 157-169

  Griffith, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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12. See Adam Liptak, The Most Conservative Court in Decades: Under Roberts, Center of Gravity Has Edged to the Right, Analyses Show, N. Y. TIMES, July 25, 2010, at 1. The metrics used in the studies are striking. In the first analysis, the scholars assumed that "[a]lmost all judicial decisions... can be assigned an ideological value. Those favoring... prosecutors and employers are said to be conservative, while those favoring criminal defendants and people claiming discrimination are said to be liberal." Id. In the second analysis, researchers took a similar approach: "[V]otes favoring criminal defendants, unions, people claiming discrimination or violation of their civil rights are, for instance, said to be liberal. Decisions striking down economic regulations and favoring prosecutors, employers and the government are said to be conservative." Id.
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