JUDICON project members presented a paper entitled “Do constitutional courts restrict government policy? The effects of budgetary implications and bloc-politics in the Hungarian Constitutional Court's decisions between 1990 and 2018” at ECPR General Conference 2021. The conference was held on-line (30 August - 3 September 2021). The paper looks at the decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (HCC) between 1990 and 2018 and concludes that the potential budgetary consequences of a decision do not weigh in with the judicial output. Furthermore, right-leaning courts are more likely to declare laws unconstitutional that were passed at times of left-wing government majorities in parliament, whereas left-wing courts adjudicate unconstitutionality with about roughly the same likelihood in the cases of right- and left-leaning parliaments.