The Court's agenda is a finite resource. The Court can only accept so many cases given its institutional responsibility to screen thousands of petitions, allocate time for oral arguments, and then construct opinions to justify the decisions both to the legal community and the broader public....

Much has been written of the success of the conservative bloc on the U.S. Supreme Court since the appointments of Justice Roberts and Justice Alito during the middle of this decade (Epstein, et. al 2007). However, little research has been conducted on the increasingly moderate positions of the...

Over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court's attention to certain policy areas has varied. Once a venue for adjudicating private economic disputes, the Supreme Court is now more likely to deal with issues related to criminal justice, civil rights and liberties, and the...

A sizable literature offers that presidents can alter Supreme Court ideology and decision making through their appointments. Nonetheless, such influence is quite uneven and uncertain when it comes to individual presidents and individual appointments. I seek to improve our understanding of the...