Chief Justice Rehnquist’s Appointments to the Fisa Court: an Empirical Perspective
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INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 239 I. BACKGROUND ON THE FISA COURT AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE’S APPOINTMENT POWERS ............................................................................................................... 243 II. METHODOLOGICAL CHOICES ................................................................................ 245 A. General Motivation, Choices, and Challenges............................................ 245 B. Specific Methodological Choices ................................................................ 247 III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ................................................................................... 252 A. The General Ideology Proxies..................................................................... 253 B. Fourth Amendment Case Data.................................................................... 255 CONCLUSION................................................................................................................ 257 APPENDIX: CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST’S APPOINTMENTS TO THE FISA COURT............ 258
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