Joe Ornstein

Joe Ornstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018 and has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution and Washington University in St. Louis. His research and teaching focuses on statistical methodology, computational social science, and urban politics. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, Economics & Politics, American Journal of Public Health, Public Choice, and Journal of Theoretical Politics, among other outlets.

How Trump’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging

In new research, Elise Blasingame, Christina Boyd, Roberto Carlos, and Joseph Ornstein explore how the Trump administration used a quota policy for immigration judges working under the Department of Justice's purview to influence how they adjudicated cases. The authors find the policy successfully nudged more judges to rule against immigrant plaintiffs.

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