Party influence on judges works through shared values, not direct commands

Evidence

Direct response to the bidding of a political party is probably rare. Indirect response to needs expressed by groups in the political system with which judges have been and may still be identified is more probable. The deepest and possibly unconscious level of response reflects consonance of the values of judges and of parties with which they have been affiliated, values which predispose judges both to associate themselves with a given party and to make decisions which favor that party. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 605

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: No judicial selection system fully eliminates political influence — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 498; Political selection fills the courts with judges holding established partisan views — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2571; Party affiliation reliably predicts how state court judges decide cases — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 432 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Judges act as temporally extended representatives of their appointing party. #expands (0.88)
• Judges rely on personal values when competing legal principles are evenly balanced #corroborates (0.78) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 156
• Generational political events shape judges’ values like those of other citizens #expands (0.75) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2575