Jonathan King

Cheers to Dr. Ryan C. Black, winner of this year’s Law & Courts Mentoring Award! 🏆 His mentorship has helped students earn top fellowships, publish research, and launch academic careers—supporting them long after graduation. A well-deserved honor!

TCU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Judicial Politics. Come work with me! Reach out with any questions: tinyurl.com/tcujudicial

**Professional New** TL,DR: My new art w/ @JakeTruscott_44 is out in first view @JLawAndCourts! A thru-line for a lot of my research has been simply "We can tell a lot more about someone's ideology by what they say rather than what they do." cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Senate GOP tactics to make 2017 tax cuts "permanent" required a nuclear move on Senate floor-- weakening authority of the parliamentarian, blowing hole in Byrd Rule, & possibly making future debt crisis more likely. New @goodauth post on fallout from the goodauthority.org/news/three-big…

Huge congratulations to Timothy Johnson, Paul Wahlbeck, and James Spriggs on winning the APSA Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award for “The Influence of Oral Arguments on the US Supreme Court.” An incredible honor for a landmark piece in judicial politics! 👏⚖️

In #FirstView by Kirsten Widner and Elizabeth A. Lane: "Mixed Signals? Rethinking How Ideology and Institutional Motivations Shape the Solicitor General’s Positions" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

This was a really fun paper to write with an excellent (and on the market!) @psupolisci grad student, Morrgan Herlihy.

My paper with @ChristineCBird & @rachaelhouston_ "Ad-dressing the bench: the impact of interest group advertisements on partisan perceptions of Supreme Court confirmations" is OA at @IGA_journal. We find that weak Reps are more easily persuaded 👥 link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Congratulations to MSU Political Science Professor Dr. Ryan Black has been awarded the C. Herman Pritchett Book Award for his most recent publication “Cognitive Aging and the Federal Circuit Courts: How Senescence Influences the Law and Judges.” Well done, Dr. Black!…

📚🏆 The APSA Law & Courts Section is thrilled to announce the winner of this year’s C. Herman Pritchett Book Award: Cognitive Aging and the Federal Circuit Courts: How Senescence Influences the Law and Judges by Ryan C. Black, Ryan J. Owens, and Patrick C. Wohlfarth!

In the small way that I can--via posts on here in the coming weeks--I want to highlight/celebrate some important NSF-funded projects (& resulting societal knowledge) over the years. 1/

So thrilled to share our article, “Facing the Public: Voter Assessments of Judicial Scandal” (w/awesome coauthors Brent Boyea and Danielle Myers) is now available online at the Journal of Law and Courts. doi.org/10.1017/jlc.20…

Driscoll , Krehbiel, and I have been polling with @YouGov about Americans' support for defying the judiciary since the start of Covid. Overall story has been stasis. But, since July, a 12% increase among Dems in support for presidents obeying courts and a 17% drop among Rs.

This is finally out at @The_JOP ! Check it out here: journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/A2JGJKY…

Some professional news: I'm incredibly excited to announce that I will be joining the University of Georgia Dept of Political Science in Fall 2025. I will miss my colleagues and students at WVU but am looking forward to joining an amazing department in Athens!