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## Integrating the data sources  We removed GSS data for years in which court data was unavailable, and merged the three court predictors with the GSS demographics predictors by year and circuit (in the (the "circuit" of a  GSS circuit respondent  was determined via by  the region a respondent they  resided in). For each court predictor, we added interactions of court-predictor-by-year, and court-predictor-by-demographic for each demographic variable.