4 Quotes by Lee Epstein

If their constituents think ideology is a good reason to vote against a nominee, ... they're going to vote against him.

During the first four years of justices' tenure, their voting behavior correlates at a rather high level with their appointing president's ideology, but for justices with ten or more years of service, that relationship drops precipitously,

I told my class the other day I have no idea what judicial activism is, ... Maybe the best definition of a judicial activist is a judge you don't like.

Before 1952, more than 60 percent of all Supreme Court justices were not judges. After 1952, the numbers sort of reversed.