{"id":95,"date":"2005-11-02T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/judicial-bias\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T00:09:43","slug":"judicial-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/judicial-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone has produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbin\/law\/chess\/bio\/Signatures%20of%20Ideology%20(final).pdf\">a quantitative measure<\/a> that tests the ideological biases of supreme court justices, and it shows a good deal of bias. It looks more like a collection of small biases rather than a simple polarization into left and right.<br \/>\nAn article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/extra\/?id=110007483\">Alito isn&#8217;t &#8220;pro-life&#8221; or &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; but &#8220;pro-law.&#8221;<\/a> by Jon Adler (who I knew when he was an undergrad and whose opinions I respect) has led me to believe that Alito will be less influenced by his personal biases than the average justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone has produced a quantitative measure that tests the ideological biases of supreme court justices, and it shows a good deal of bias. It looks more like a collection of small biases rather than a simple polarization into left and right. An article titled Alito isn&#8217;t &#8220;pro-life&#8221; or &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; but &#8220;pro-law.&#8221; by Jon Adler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[44,68],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us","tag-bias","tag-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-1x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}