In the Brennan Center's latest weekly round up of Fair Courts news, we focus on the large number of federal judicial vacancies, funding cuts that result in severe backlogs, money in judicial elections, and more.

In the Brennan Center's latest weekly round up of Fair Courts news, we focus on judicial diversity, state judicial selection in Michigan and Tennessee, judicial ethics in Kentucky, Nevada, and Wisconsin, and more.

Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit delivered the annual Brennan Center Jorde Symposium lecture Tuesday evening at University of California Berkeley Law School.  His topic was "The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint."

With special interests spending ever-increasing dollars to capture state judiciaries, disclosure rules are needed to protect fair and impartial courts. Legislators in the 39 states that elect judges should pass laws that require disclosure of who’s paying for judicial campaign ads.