Losing litigants shift their strategy from courts to legislative and electoral arenas.

Evidence

Most important, however, pro-life groups pressured public officials to oppose and limit abortion. If they had lost in the judicial arena, they sought in other arenas to reverse or limit the Court’s ruling. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3121

Categorization

• XREF: Together with the pro-choice demobilization point, sketches the classic ‘losers go elsewhere’ dynamic.
• APHORISMS: Compact, portable lesson about how durable institutions outlast a single ruling.