Abstract
This paper introduces a novel lower federal court confirmation simulation procedure that tests how participation influences levels of knowledge and views of legitimacy of this political process. By conducting the simulation and corresponding survey at three different institutions (a public R2 institution, a public regional university, and a private R1 institution) in varied geographic locations, our results will be representative of college students across the country. We plan on finalizing data collection by the end of 2025. This new simulation procedure will provide judicial politics instructors with an innovative way to reinforce their traditional lectures on the politics of judicial confirmation. We anticipate that our results will show that exposure to these intricate processes will influence both knowledge and perceptions of legitimacy.