Title
Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2020
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Immigration Law | Judges | Law
Abstract
Do people believe a federal court when it rules against the government? And does such judicial credibility depend on the perceived political affiliation of the judge? This study presents a survey experiment addressing these questions, based on a set of recent cases in which both a judge appointed by President George W. Bush and a judge appointed by President Bill Clinton declared the same Trump Administration action to be unlawful. The findings offer evidence that, in a politically salient case, the partisan identification of the judge – here, as a “Bush judge” or “Clinton judge” – can influence the credibility of judicial review in the public mind.
Recommended Citation
Bert I. Huang,
Judicial Credibility,
William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 61, p. 1053, 2020
(2020).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2665
Included in
Administrative Law Commons, Immigration Law Commons, Judges Commons