n October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Fairhurst received a campaign finance score of -1.24, indicating a liberal ideological leaning. This was more liberal than the average score of -0.91 that justices received in Washington.
