Did you know that if a justice denies your emergency application in chambers, you can refile with a different justice of your choice? Which justice litigants choose to refile with tells a fascinating story. New piece over at "In the Interim" @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/just...

Justice shopping on the emergency docket?

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We know @scotusblog.com doesn't do Running the Trolls anymore, but maybe we should?

Trump Aint America@trumpaintamerica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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New work with Chris Krewson and Miles Armaly! We show that (1) nominee support (via shared presidential partisanship) has significant downstream effects on SCOTUS approval, and (2) it is enduring, lasting long after the confirmation process journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The Rothermere American Institute at Oxford is recruiting for the Churchill Associate Professor of United States Politics, looking especially for a colleague with expertise in American political development. The application deadline is May 6. See the job listing here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Jobs and Vacancies

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We treat emergency docket orders as data. But what if the public record doesn't reflect how the justices actually voted or why? My latest at @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/what...

What really happens on the emergency docket

By now, readers of SCOTUSblog are quite familiar with the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, where parties come to the court seeking emergency orders, oftentimes without full briefing and oral argument...

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Interested in access to justice, children's rights, or IR? Check out @andreavilan.bsky.social & @rjschoner.bsky.social's fantastic new work in the Journal of Human Rights "Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations."🔥🔥 doi.org/10.1080/1475...

Relevantly, @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I have a JOP coming out on this very topic, where we examine 34 years of citation data to address attorney targeting of justices. TLDR: yes, they do it and yes, it works. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Cite and Sway? Attorneys, Briefs, and Persuasion at the U.S. Supreme Court | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Dr. Adam Feldman@dradamfeldman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Which justices were attorneys trying to sway in the tariff case? Strategic targeting is a thing. I wrote about it for Legalytics: legalytics.substack.com/p/were-brief...

We see you with that SCOTUS pack on the interim/shadow docket, @tdunc17.bsky.social!

SCOTUSblog@scotusblog.com · 8mo ago

Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

Spring Law and Courts Women's Writing Groups are a go! Link to sign up is below, due date for signing up is 1/30. Come join us! Good work across the law and courts subfield gets done here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Law and Courts Women's Writing Group

Writing groups for the Spring 2026 semester

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Dream team strikes again! Congrats to @rachaelhouston.bsky.social, @christinecbird.bsky.social, and Marcy Shieh for being the 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients politicalsciencenow.com/meet-rachael...

Meet Rachael Houston, Marcy Shieh, and Christine C. Bird, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients -

Project Title: Whose Briefs Count? Mapping Regional Influence in Healthcare Cases Before the Supreme Court Rachael Houston, Texas Christian University Rachael Houston is an assistant professor of political science at Texas Christian University. Her research [...]

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What up, fellow (and award winning) #juniorswhojudicial? cc: @rachaelhouston.bsky.social, @christinecbird.bsky.social, and Marcy Shieh!

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Meet Rachael Houston, Marcy Shieh, and Christine C. Bird, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient Rachael Houston, Texas Christian University Marcy Shieh, Miami University in Ohio Christine C. Bird, Oklahoma State University Project Title: Whose Briefs Count? Mapping…

Reminder that it's nomination season. Get your nominations in!

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Have you submitted your nominations for #APSAAwards? APSA awards scholars for best dissertations, papers, articles, and books in various subfields of the discipline and for career achievement in teaching, research, and service to the profession.🏅 Submit nominations by February 11th:

LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!!! #ReadItCiteItSyllabusIt

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)@ajpseditor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court by Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, and Jessica A. Schoenherr is now available in Early View. @jonathanmking.bsky.social @elizabethlane.bsky.social @jessicaann87.bsky.social t.co/lE9STMjDNk

Friendly reminder that JLC is looking for a new editor! Applications due to the committee by 2/1/2026.

APSA Law & Courts Section@lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The APSA Law & Courts Section is searching for the next Editor of the Journal of Law and Courts (starting Jan. 2027). Apply by Feb. 1, 2026. Questions? Contact the Search Committee: K. Randazzo, A. Badas, D. Hughes, J. Schoenherr.

Hot off the presses @polbehavior.bsky.social with stellar coauthors: "Gender Stereotypes Across Electoral Contexts" asks whether and how candidates use feminine + masculine stereotypes differently across office type. More here: 👇

Gender Stereotypes across Electoral Contexts - Political Behavior

We examine how the office a candidate seeks influences their use of feminine stereotypes in campaign messaging, focusing on the interplay between government branches (legislative and executive) and ju...

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New article out in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social with @jonathanmking.bsky.social and @kstauffer.bsky.social! We look at harassers' decisions to employ female attorneys to fortify their arguments. Fun fact: people do not respond positively to these strategic moves. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

IMPORTANT EXTENSION! The SPSA Neal Tate Best Paper Committee is extending the deadline to Nov 3, 5:00 pm EST. The 2026 Neal Award is given to the author(s) of the Best Paper on Judicial Politics presented at the 2025 SPSA Annual Meeting. Email papers to spsa.finance@spsa.net.

IT'S WRITING GROUP SEASON!!!! L&C Women Writing Group has everything: erudite commentary, vast experience, bonding. Evidence of success: Pick up the JOP. JLC. PRQ. P&G. SPPQ. Papers that went through our group are everywhere! Deadline is tomorrow (10/3)! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Law and Courts Women's Writing Group

Writing groups for the Fall 2025 semester

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It's a little difficult to overstate how important having information like this is, particularly in our weird (and lovely) subfield...thank you for your incredible work here, @abbymatthews.bsky.social, @alyxmark.bsky.social, and Monica! (and it's open access!) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Read It. Cite It. Syllabus It. And use for tenure letters! FANTASTIC WORK by @abbymatthews.bsky.social @alyxmark.bsky.social and Monica Lineberger! cc: @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 New article with @jessicaann87.bsky.social in Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities🚨 SCOTUS gender composition is related to more women working at and appealing to the Court.

Are you telling me that more women in positions of power leads to more women in positions of support? YES. YES WE ARE.

Elizabeth Lane@elizabethlane.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 New article with @jessicaann87.bsky.social in Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities🚨 SCOTUS gender composition is related to more women working at and appealing to the Court.

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We're back, y'all! Hitting that #TenureTrackHustle hard, but finding time to support our fellow #JudicialWomen nonetheless! LET'S GO!!!!!!!!! (PS - follow @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social for all your official APSA Law and Courts content) (PPS - We are not judges, please don't tag us to yell at them!)

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Make sure you download the app well before your panel so you’re not scrambling 10 minutes beforehand trying to find your way to your panel. ✨

Oh hey, it's my, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, and @jamilscott.bsky.social's JOP getting some love from SPIA! spia.uga.edu/you-better-s...

New publication alert! @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I examine how the institutional interests of the Office of the Solicitor General shape its positions and the justices' reactions to them 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mixed Signals? Rethinking How Ideology and Institutional Motivations Shape the Solicitor General’s Positions - Kirsten Widner, Elizabeth A. Lane, 2025

The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) wins more cases before the US Supreme Court than any other party. Recent scholarship shows that justices are most like...

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Thanks to @proftracythomas.bsky.social for the opportunity to share our work on gender, judging, and legal influence! #polisky #gendersky #lawsky

I am always proud of my former graduate students. Today, @rachaelhouston.bsky.social just published this excellent commentary on the @lseusablog.bsky.social. Nice job my friend! @umnpolisci.bsky.social @judicialwomen.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social