Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Conservative STARs of the Supreme Court Seem to Have a Bit of a Problem with Liberal Speakers/Speeches

STAR = Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts.

Let's take this table from the paper, "Do Justices Defend the Speech They Hate?" by Lee Epstein, Christopher M. Parker, & Jeffrey A. Segal, published on May 2, 2014.......


Table 1 explained.   Percentage support for the free expression claim based on the ideological grouping of the speaker, for Roberts Court Justices (ordered from most conservative to most liberal based on the Martin-Quinn Scores). Excludes Kagan and Sotomayor due to small Ns and a lack of variation in the speakers. An indicates a statistically signi cant di erence in support for the liberal versus conservative speaker at p .05.

....and visualize the liberal-conservative column differences for each Supreme Court Justice, tossing out the window, I imagine, accepted academic statistical practice.  What the hell!


When I look at the first four red columns, moving left to right, I immediately think of the term "judicial activism".

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