Tom Susman has posted this draft on SSRN (Journal of Law and Politics). Here is the abstract:
The system of privately financed elections of judges in most states across the country has long been controversial, with both the scholarship and… Continue reading
Nevada News Bureau: “Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nevada, says he wishes the judge who ruled in the second congressional special election case had disclosed business interests he shared with Republican candidate Mark Amodei.”
That’s one of the arguments made in this NY Times editorial. I disagree with the Times board on this issue. If we are to have judicial elections at all, they are so that there is some measure of accountability of… Continue reading
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel offers this editorial. It begins: ‘Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser should recuse himself from a case pending before the high court involving a lawyer whose firm did work for the justice during an expensive recount… Continue reading