{"id":503632,"date":"2018-08-01T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e5b653e4830c4de06367025d71ec077c"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:58:32","slug":"politicization-and-prioritization-in-the-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=503632","title":{"rendered":"Politicization and prioritization in the judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection,&#8221; published in the Journal of Law and Economics, Adam Bonica and Maya Sen analyze how and why American courts become politicized. The authors present a theory of strategic selection in which politicians appoint judges with specific ideological backgrounds in order to advance political agendas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection,&#8221; published in the Journal of Law and Economics, Adam Bonica and Maya Sen analyze how and why American cour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503633,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503632\/revisions\/503633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}