Updated WP with the social-medialess Alina Dunlap! What influence do lobbyists have on their clients' decisions? Using data on lobbying in the California legislature by municipalities, we examine how lobbyists structure the actions of their clients. 1/🧵 anthonytaboni.com/wp-content/u...

Asking the tough questions in class

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy by Alexander V. Hirsch, Jonathan P. Kastellec, and Anthony R. Taboni is now available in Early View. @jkastellec.bsky.social @anthonytaboni.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/01/09/r...

Joshes Allen like Attorneys General

The Shadow Docket Database (created with @jkastellec.bsky.social) has entered its v2 era. With the conclusion of the 2024 term, we've updated both the data set and our paper. Both can be accessed at shadowdocketdata.com. A couple of quick highlights 1/🧵

The Shadow Docket Database (created with @jkastellec.bsky.social) has entered its v2 era. With the conclusion of the 2024 term, we've updated both the data set and our paper. Both can be accessed at shadowdocketdata.com. A couple of quick highlights 1/🧵

The first version of this project started the summer after my first year of grad school, so it's very exciting to see it out in print

The first version of this project started the summer after my first year of grad school, so it's very exciting to see it out in print

Met my boss today finally

Met my boss today finally

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0 - @anthonytaboni.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

The strongest regional accent I've encountered in Austin so far has come from the blue jays outside my office

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Jeff Staton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Cameron 🏆👏 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron on this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to our field!

The discussants at APSA this year look especially intimidating

A bit of light in the dark. Elizabeth is finally free

🚨I'm on the job market! 🚨 My job market paper employs a formal model to examine the role of racial competency in shaping the behavior of Multiracial politicians. My broader dissertation examines how Multiracial Americans are a threat to racial solidarity. For more, visit www.isaiahcjohnson.com.

godDAMN

Well Austin is about to learn about how insufferable of a Bills fan I am

Hark! A dirigible.

I'm on the 2025-26 academic job market in political science! I recently completed my PhD and am now a postdoctoral researcher at the Comparative Constitutions Project. My research examines constitutional design, public participation, and Latin American politics using mixed methods. mattjmartin.com

Really pleased to announce that my paper "The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Cases of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals" has been accepted at the APSR. The paper can be found here: anthonytaboni.com/wp-content/u...

This might be my favorite graph in "Making the Supreme Court," not least because it easily dispels the notion that BORK CHANGED EVERYTHING.

New author achievement unlocked: Just saw an ad for a book with the tagline "Perfect for fans of Edward Ashton." So, yeah, I guess Tabones and Maggie the Cat should probably grab themselves copies of that one. 😇

Really excited to see my work with @jkastellec.bsky.social mentioned in the NYT. See the underlying data and the accompanying paper at shadowdocketdata.com

I've officially moved to Austin. Please send your recommendations for coffee, food, things to do, and more food.

This is just the kind of thing we need. Careful people collecting important data and building a public resource. Kudos! I suspect these data will get a lot of use.

Excited to share these data with the world!

The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not protect everybody equally. Instead it upheld the Tennessee law that seeks to eradicate trans kids. My latest in @thenation www.thenation.com/article/poli...

yeah, these people are seething with hatred, and momentary victories getting to stomp on some minority doesn't fix the howling void in their souls bsky.app/profile/mlro...

Why did no one prepare me for the tough times post graduation? (I have to purchase a month Mathematica license until I start my postdoc).

Congratulations to Anthony Taboni, who received Honorable Mention for @apsa.bsky.social's Best Conference Paper Award, Law and Courts Division for “The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.” @anthonytaboni.bsky.social

Life hack alert! If you spend six years in grad school and write a dissertation, they add three letters to your name!

The world is a lot but my cat fell into the shower this morning and got damp! (She is fine and got towel dried and treats)

stuck around just long enough for Easter and to tell J.D. Vance to repent his ways, and then peaced out.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

Repeating: Constitutional *crisis* (and Rubicon) is the wrong way to think about it. It's a continuing, multi-pronged *attack* on the Constitution, the rule of law, and the republic. All of it counts.

If you would grant me permission to briefly lib out I will say that this was my favorite part.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Planning on being the first ever person to have a perfect bracket with my metric: How close is the department of political science at the university to a Wendy's

Absolutely great. Chris really nails it. This is what every university president should be saying loudly right now - and asking every donor to stand up for. And telling every legislator and governor to embrace.

Yeah @edashtonwriting.bsky.social 's current work is great, but I don't know if it beats his work in the mid-to-late 1990s

I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

Now that the ink has dried, I'm excited to share than I'm head to @utaustin.bsky.social! I'll be spending 2025-2026 as a posdoc before joining the Department of Government as an assistant professor. I'm incredibly excited and very thankful to all who helped me get here.

Political scientists, please note: Princeton Politics postdoc to work with me on law and courts research in 2025-2026. If you know of someone who might be interested, please share with them. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

I think my cat accurately captures my feelings on trying to finish my dissertation in light of *gestures broadly*