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Explore / Integrate "Judicial" or "Ethics" data #19

Open gerard070 opened 2 years ago

gerard070 commented 2 years ago

Currently we do not have data on the Judicial branch of the US government. This is a key component of the structure of the US government and would be of immense value to legal journalists and law students.

Per https://www.usa.gov/branches-of-government,

Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government The judicial branch interprets the meaning of laws, applies laws to individual cases, and decides if laws violate the Constitution. It is comprised of the Supreme Court and other federal courts.

Understanding how this segment of the government operates is crucial to our mission of understanding governments and how they run.

Gerard to follow up with Jake Kaplan on some of his current sources.

Per my initial conversation with Jake Kaplan, this data is reallly hard to find online. Lawyers like paper, so this could be a challenge.

skipjack commented 2 years ago

@gerard070 expanded the title to call out the "Explore" page for a first cut, though -- depending on how we do it -- this addition would probably add some "Search" results as well. Also, still cool with scoping to just US data for the first cut but if we found a good international source for part or some (e.g. the judicial structures) that could be cool.