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The Second Dimension of the Supreme Court
2015
Social Science Research Network
Describing the Justices of the Supreme Court as liberals and conservatives has become so standard and the left-right division on the Court is considered so entrenched that any deviation from that pattern is treated with surprise. Attentive Court watchers know that the Justices are not j ust politicians in robes, decidingeach case on a purely ideological basis. Yet the increasingly influential empirical legal studies literature assumes j ust that that a left-right ideological dimension fully
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2649427
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