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.
In the Brennan Center's latest Fair Courts E-lert, we focus on state judicial selection in Iowa and Pennsylvania, diversity on the bench in Hawaii, the State of the Union address, and more.
Somewhere between Yalie Sam Alito’s confirmation in 2006 and Harvard Dean and Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s nomination in 2010, an Ivy League degree went from a credential to a liability. Now with Kagan set to be confirmed, there has been the odd objection that too many Ivy Leaguers will be on the high court.
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.
The Brennan Center's Susan Liss talks to New York's ABC Eyewitness news about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, and whether her nomination will be difficult to pass in Congress. Liss also explains what the current political climate is for Kagan's possible confirmation, based on Kagan's own career history.
