Implications of Court Curbing in the US States

Abstract

State courts decide far more cases than federal courts, impacting the daily lives of state citizens. However, considerably less is known about judicial decision-making among state court judges, particularly when subject to court-curbing activity by other policy-makers. This paper examines the implications of court curbing on the judicial behavior of US state court judges. Court curbing aims to diminish judicial independence and alter the balance of powers among branches of government. However, the extent of influence these attacks have on targeted judiciaries is largely unknown. I argue that judges alter their decision-making around cases based on recent court-curbing activity. Specifically, I utilize two novel measures of court curbing, court-curbing intensity and court-curbing likelihood, which serve as indicators of the levels of potential institutional change to the court and likelihood that a proposal will be enacted. These measures extend beyond the simple counts of court-curbing proposals used in past studies.

A Designer Nanoparticle Platform for Controlled Intracellular Delivery of Bioactive Macromolecules: Inhibition of Ubiquitin-Specific Protease 7 in Breast Cancer Cells

“…Decoration and Characterization of PLP Constructs. Purified PLPs were decorated with D-F, D-Trz, and D-UbV as per the published procedure 13,15,27 and are outlined in Figure 2B. The platform allows decoration with each construct in defined surface densities, and unless otherwise indicated, all particles were decorated with 25% D-F and 1% D-Trz for particle tracking and cell targeting, respectively, with D-UbV at increasing surface densities (5, 10, 15, and 20%) and gpD-WT to fill the remaining gpD binding sites as indicated in Table 1.…”