Alex Badas

In #FirstView by Rahul Hemrajani: "Trust in the (Measures of Legitimacy of) Courts" journals.sagepub.com/home/PRQ?_gl=1…

ATTENTION WOMEN OF POLI SCI Monica Komer & I are organizing our annual women's March Madness bracket! Open to any women-identifying or non-binary political scientist. Entry $10, up to 2 each. Loser gets fee back. Pot split 80-20 btw 1st & 2nd DM if interested & spread the word!

In #FirstView by Teena Wilhelm and David A. Hughes: "Judicial Institutions, Independence, and the Separation of Powers" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Call for Applications - due Sunday! The 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program's Spring Cycle offers the opportunity for first- and second-year political science PhD candidates to receive a $2000 grant. Submit by March 8, 2026. Apply Now! buff.ly/lgYJmFh

Judges resolve many of the nation’s biggest political questions, but how do they participate in democracy as citizens? Do they vote more than others or less? Our exciting new project, "Judges as Voters (in Elections)," offers the empirical answer. 1/

In #FirstView by Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha and Paul M. Collins: "Presidential References to Executive Actions in Public Comments on Supreme Court Cases" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

In #FirstView by Alex Farone: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T: An Analysis of the Norm of Respectful Dissent" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

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An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court by Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, and Jessica A. Schoenherr is now available in Early View. @MilesArmaly @jonathan_m_king @DrElizabethLane ajps.org/2025/12/15/an-…

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its spring seminar series on zoom! Submit by January 12 for full consideration. To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🚨 New article alert! 🚨 With the X-less Jessica Schoenherr and Katey Stauffer (@k_stauffer) We look at harassers' decisions to employ female attorneys to fortify their arguments and find people do not respond positively to these strategic moves. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In #FirstView by Michael J. Nelson and James L. Gibson: "Institutional Structures and Judicial Legitimacy" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

It's not only wise, it's supported by science! We have plenty of empirical evidence that what takes place during orals informs case outcomes. jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.… jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.… journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

My article "The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts," co-authored with Eugenia Artabe and Lucia Lopez, is now available online at Political Research Quarterly (@PRQjournal). doi.org/10.1177/106591…

The APSA Law & Courts Section is searching for the next Editor of the Journal of Law and Courts (starting Jan. 2027). Apply by Feb. 1, 2026. Questions? Contact the Search Committee: K. Randazzo, A. Badas, D. Hughes, J. Schoenherr.

Currently in FirstView: In “An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology,” @KevinLynnCope develops a dynamic method for estimating the ideology of federal judges. The Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Score (JuDJIS) is based on over 20,000 evaluations by a sample of jurists.

Last chance to apply! APSA’s Diversity Fellowship Program awards $5,000 to support future political science scholars applying to political science PhDs for Fall 2026 admission. Learn more about the #APSADFP program and application eligibility: buff.ly/ihLR0Lv

Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did several interviews with the Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit from 1995-2014. She stipulated that the transcripts would be available 5 years after her death. Those transcripts are now public. dcchs.org/judges/ginsbur… H/T @palmore_joe I've been reading through them and have found some intriguing nuggets. An example: this reference in Interview 6 (August 19, 1998) to a suggestion from the late Second Circuit Judge Robert Katzmann that when circuits divide on the proper interpretation of a statute, Congress could be notified and asked to resolve the ambiguity (an interesting idea post-Loper Bright). Similar to federal courts certifying questions to state supreme courts on unsettled matters of state law.