{"id":6531,"date":"2015-10-06T02:59:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2015-10-06T02:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:59:55","slug":"supreme-court-justices-get-more-liberal-as-they-get-older-fivethirtyeight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/06\/supreme-court-justices-get-more-liberal-as-they-get-older-fivethirtyeight\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older &#124; FiveThirtyEight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There\u2019s an old saw, often mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill, that goes something like this: \u201cIf you\u2019re not a liberal when you\u2019re 25, you have no heart. If you\u2019re not a conservative when you\u2019re 35, you have no brain.\u201d A person should start left and drift right, and not the other way around, the adage suggests.1But when it comes to Supreme Court justices, growing older appears to incite a trend in the opposite ideological direction. One prominent measure of judicial ideology \u2014 the Martin-Quinn score \u2014 illustrates this tendency. These scores, as DW-Nominate does for legislators, use the justices\u2019 votes to quantify their position on a left-right spectrum. A more negative score means a justice is further left; a more positive score means she\u2019s further right. The scores are based on data from the Supreme Court Database and are calculated back to 1937.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/supreme-court-justices-get-more-liberal-as-they-get-older\/\">Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older | FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an old saw, often mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill, that goes something like this: \u201cIf you\u2019re not a liberal when you\u2019re 25, you have no heart. If you\u2019re not a conservative when you\u2019re 35, you have no brain.\u201d A person should start left and drift right, and not the other way around, the adage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/06\/supreme-court-justices-get-more-liberal-as-they-get-older-fivethirtyeight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older &#124; FiveThirtyEight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}