Generational events shape judicial attitudes along with everyone else’s.

Evidence

For one generation, the crucial event was the Great Depression; for another, the Vietnam War; for the present generation, perhaps it will be the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Think again of Justice Benjamin Cardozo’s comment: “The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.” — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1306

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Judges bring long-established political views to the bench because selection is itself political. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1301; Judicial decisions result from attitudes, role conceptions, and institutional constraints interacting together. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1286; Generational political events shape judges’ values like those of other citizens — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2575 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Generational political events shape judges’ values like those of other citizens #corroborates (0.98) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2575
• Regional political culture shapes the attitudes judges bring to the bench #corroborates (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2576
• The legal perspective holds law as the primary determinant of judicial decisions #complicates (0.75) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1360
• Judges’ politics, gender, and family shape their rulings empirically #expands (0.72)
• Judges’ personal attributes and even trivial bodily states can shape decisions #expands (0.72)