Please check out this new project I've been working on with some incredible collaborators.
Analyzing very cool big data with federal judge identifiers, we found some intriguing results about how presidents (especially one president) have shaped both sentencing leniency and ethnoracial disparities.
TL;DR: We have (to our knowledge) the first public data on how Trump-appointed judges act at sentencing. They’re less likely than others to grant leniency. Moreover, racial/ethnic disparities vary widely by president, and it’s not just about political party.

Comments