Now there's proof: Republican judges are more racist--a lot more racist
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/30/1768212/-Now-there-s-proof-Republican-judges-are-more-racist-A-lot-more-racist
The study was sui generis: Two Harvard Law professors, Alma Cohen and Crystal S. Yang, set out to analyze 1,400 federal judges sentencing practices over a 15-year period affecting more than 500,000 defendants. The results were predictable but disheartening.
They unearthed a stunning number of influences on sentencing, from years of experience and level of racism in a state to the party of appointment. Its major finding: Republican-appointed judges give black defendants harsher sentences than their white counterparts.
Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants to three more months than similar nonblacks.
These differences cannot be explained by other judge characteristics and grow substantially larger when judges are granted more discretion.
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Other markers for racist sentencing? Inexperiencejudges racial sentencing gaps shrink as they ageand geography. Judges in states with a higher level of racial bias tend to inflict higher average racial sentencing gaps.