Uncorking the Filibuster Genie Will Make Courts More Partisan
Proponents of a more activist judiciary and speedier confirmation of President Obama’s judicial nominees – like the Justice at Stake crowd – are pleased with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s...
View ArticleMore Evidence of Public Discontent with Imperial Judges in Kansas
The Kansas Supreme Court is currently mulling whether to order the state legislature to raise taxes to provide a level of the school funding judges divine as adequate. In response to similar invasions...
View ArticleFlorida Governor Rick Scott Refuses to Bow to the State’s Law Lords
The American Bar Association is upset. So is the Florida Bar. It seems Florida Governor Rick Scott is not fulfilling the role assigned to him in picking state judges – a role conceived and created by...
View ArticleJudicial Independence Does Not Mean Judicial Supremacy
Count Oklahoma among the states increasingly fed up with “merit” selection and the unaccountable, imperial judges it produces. After the state Supreme Court tossed aside Oklahoma’s tort reform...
View ArticleGiving Up the “Merit” Selection Ghost in Tennessee
Leading Democrats and Republicans in Tennessee are rallying behind Amendment #2 – a November ballot initiative that would once-and-for-all kill “merit” selection and enshrine a federal-style system of...
View ArticleJudiciary Is a “Complete Oligarchy” in Oklahoma
In recent years, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned tax cuts and blocked legislation to reform the state’s legal system, among other attempts to step beyond its judicial authority and act like...
View Article“Let the People Decide…”
Tennessee Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey is headlining an effort to knock three activist judges off the state’s Supreme Court in upcoming retention elections – another manifestation of the widespread revolt...
View ArticleThe Self-Righteous Phonyness of the “Merit” Selection Crowd
The “merit” selection crowd has always made a fetish of judicial independence. It’s a talisman they raise up to oppose democratic judicial elections. It’s why voters are never, ever allowed to vote...
View ArticleIs It Diversity Or Qualifications?
A new report by the Florida Bar “puts the governor on notice that a decline in the portion of judges who are African-American is unacceptable and it’s his responsibility to bring more diversity to the...
View ArticleThe Government Shutdown and the Impact on Financial Regulators
Attorney Mark Pulliam has a great piece in the City Journal that shreds the “pro” arguments for “merit” selection, as well as the “con” arguments against democratic judicial elections. Some...
View ArticleA System So Toxic We Dare Not Speak Its Name
The Wichita Eagle has an editorial today praising Governor Sam Brownback’s elevation of his former chief counsel and Court of Appeals judge Caleb Stegall to the state Supreme Court and of the...
View ArticleThe Insufferable Arrogance of the “Merit” Selection Crowd
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts (PMC)– part of the George Soros-financed cabal pushing “merit” selection – recently “celebrated” its 25th anniversary, “celebration” being a fancy way of saying the...
View ArticleThe Nation’s Top ‘Judicial Hell Hole’
Attorney Mark Pulliam has a great piece in the City Journal that shreds the “pro” arguments for “merit” selection, as well as the “con” arguments against democratic judicial elections. Some...
View ArticleThe Insufferable Arrogance of the “Merit” Selection Crowd
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts (PMC)– part of the George Soros-financed cabal pushing “merit” selection – recently “celebrated” its 25th anniversary, “celebration” being a fancy way of saying the...
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