Why approximately ten words? Well in reality it is in ten n-grams or phrases of one to a few words. The words not only provide a pithy synopsis of each case, but they also give the parties’ framings of the cases. I used a method known as keyword extraction to locate these phrases (more about…
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Forecasting Votes in Hellerstedt
On March 2nd, the Court heard oral arguments in perhaps the most publicized case of the Term – Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (No. 15-274). The case brings into question Texas’ new controversial law limiting who can perform abortions. Prior to oral arguments expectations were already high that the Justices would split along ideological lines…
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