Post Tagged with: "Judges"

• CR-CL Podcast – Episode 16 – Affirmative Action and Judicial Nominations

  Courts, Education, Podcast, Race and Immigration October 15, 2012 at 4:34 pm 0 comments

  With Matt in the hosting chair this week, CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content, Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin take a close look at this week’s oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas and at the pace and process of President’s Obama’s judicial nominations. The show begins with our weekly news round-up, This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

   

• SCOTUS to Hear Oral Arguments in Prisoner's Run-on Sentencing Appeal

  By Bill O'Neil, Courts, Criminal Justice November 26, 2011 at 11:05 pm 0 comments

  Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Setser v. United States.  The cases addresses whether a federal court has authority to order a federal sentence to run consecutively with a yet-to-be-imposed state sentence. In 2007, petitioner Monroe Setser was sentenced in federal court for possession of methamphetamine [...]

   

• Republican Presidential Candidates Question Virtues of Judicial Independence

  By Bill O'Neil, Courts, Original Content, Voting and Elections October 24, 2011 at 6:05 pm 0 comments

  Fueled by the lingering (and largely erroneous) perception of a liberal judiciary, Republican presidential candidates are calling for new legislation to curb the power of federal judges.  As the Washington Post reports, a majority of the Republican field is calling for some sort of judicial reform, including the abolition of [...]

   

• CR-CL News Round-up

  Consumers and Corporations, Courts, First Amendment, Human Rights, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights, Privacy and National Security, Race and Immigration September 13, 2011 at 7:10 pm 0 comments

  A round-up of some of the top stories in civil rights and civil liberties news.

   

• Former Supreme Court Justice O'Connor Takes a Stand Against Judicial Elections

  By Jason Lee, Courts, Issue Areas, Voting and Elections June 13, 2011 at 1:06 pm 0 comments

  In a Guest Commentary piece in the Detroit Free Press, former Supreme Court Justice O’Connor argued against processes in which state judges participate in competitive elections in order to secure spots on the state bench.  In her own words: “Proponents of judicial elections argue that this is the democratic way, [...]

   

• Goodwin Liu and Lessons for Aspiring Appellate Judges

  By Jason Lee, Courts, Issue Areas May 21, 2011 at 8:31 pm 0 comments

  Over at Towleroad, Ezra Waldman discusses the recent (disappointing) cloture vote in the Senate on the (still) pending nomination of Goodwin Liu to the 9th Circuit of Appeals.  You can read his post HERE.  In the meantime, Waldman has two suggestions for any aspiring appellate judges: First, if you want [...]

   

• Can Being A Minority Be A Conflict Of Interest?

  By Noah Kaplan, Courts, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights May 2, 2011 at 8:42 am 7 comments

  After the revelation by Proposition 8 judge Vaughn Walker that he is gay and in a long-term same-sex relationship, Prop. 8 supporters are trying to have his landmark ruling striking down the California referendum vacated on the grounds that he should have recused himself. This is an attempt to strain the general practice of conflict of interest recusal from family and financial conflict of interest to some other type of personal conflict of interest.

   

• Legal Scholars Argue Supreme Court Should Limit Campaign Spending in Judicial Elections

  Courts, Issue Areas, Voting and Elections April 18, 2011 at 3:57 pm 1 comment

  Dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine, Erwin Cherminsky, and associate professor of law at Hofstra, James J. Sample, published an Op Ed piece in the New York Times yesterday arguing that the Supreme Court should limit campaign contributions in judicial elections. Cherminsky and Sample assert [...]