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Lawgeeks, there's a fascinating short paper about the "Curiously Nonrandom Assignment of Sixth Circuit Senior Judges."
Finds that senior judges oddly tend to sit with other judges appointed from the same political party.
kentuckylawjournal.org/index.php/2019…
Finds that senior judges oddly tend to sit with other judges appointed from the same political party.
kentuckylawjournal.org/index.php/2019…
The mismatch was so bad with one judge there "might as well have had at least one more active Democratic judge" at the court.
BUT! There might be a reason, at least partially, for that one judge's peculiar statistics: the clerks may be keeping her away from some other judges because of bad blood!
