“Is money to blame for Supreme Court dysfunction?”
Bill Lueders blogs, via Dahlia Lithwick.
Category Archives: judicial elections
Arkansas Law Review Symposium on Judicial Elections
“Judicial Independence and Social Welfare”
Michael Gilbert has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Independence empowers judges to interpret law without interference, but it also allows them to ignore law and to pursue private agendas. Recognizing this, scholars have called for a… Continue reading
“Ruling on bias has Supreme Court judges bickering again”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
State Supreme Court justices can’t kick each other off cases for alleged bias, the court ruled Tuesday in a bitterly divided decision along now-familiar 4-3 lines.
The decision prompted a fresh round of tough words for one… Continue reading
“Change in State Supreme Court Elections: Is Voting Becoming More Partisan?”
Herbert Kritzer has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract;
Judicial elections, particularly elections to state supreme courts, have generated substantial commentary over the last decade. Observers have asserted that elections have become more hotly contested, nastier, more… Continue reading
“Legal Ethics and Campaign Contributions: The Professional Responsibility to Pay for Justice”
Keith Swisher has posted this draft on SSRN (Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics). Here is the abstract.
Lawyers as johns, and judges as prostitutes? Across the United States, attorneys (“johns,” as the analogy goes) are giving campaign money to judges… Continue reading
“Both Sides Ask Dismissal of Public Financing Appeal”
Gavel Grab reports. The legal question in the Wisconsin case is a very interesting one. May a public financing system like the one the Supreme Court struck down in Arizona Free Enterprise as violating the First Amendment be constitutional… Continue reading
What a Difference (a Supreme Court) Election Makes: Michigan Edition
AP: “Public school districts cannot help unions by deducting political contributions from the paychecks of teachers, the Michigan Supreme Court said Thursday as conservatives reversed a six-month-old ruling by liberal justices….The Supreme Court issued a completely different opinion in… Continue reading
“Constitutionalizing Judicial Ethics: Judicial Elections after Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, Caperton, and Citizens United”
Ronald Rotunda has posted this draft on SSRN (Arkansas Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Recent times have witnessed strong lobbying efforts to move states away from electing judges to appointing them. Opponents of judicial elections repeatedly argue that the… Continue reading
“Billionaire George Soros Trying To Stack the Courts, Critics Say”
FOX News reports. You decide.
“Q&A: Susan Saladoff, Producer and Director of ‘Hot Coffee'”
See here. I haven’t seen this yet, but I hear the parts on judicial elections are well worth seeing. I also talk a lot about the myth of the McDonald’s coffee case in my Torts class, so I really… Continue reading
Investigation Coming to Wisconsin Supreme Court?
Howard has the update.
Timely
A Special Edition of Gavel to Gavel looks at: Public Financing of Judicial Campaigns.
“”In Defense of Judicial Elections” – author Q&A”
Gann Hall and Bonneau at Prawfsblawg.