Professor Emeritus Herbert Kritzer Quoted in New York Times Article on 2022 State Supreme Court Elections

Since in the late 1980s voters' choices in state supreme court races have aligned every more consistently with their political preferences in county elections, the University of Minnesota political scientist and legal scholar Herbert M. Kritzer found in a 2021 study. "At this stage," he said, "identification with the parties has become so strong in terms of what it means for people that I don't know if you've got to say another than other than 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat.'"