Certain American values transcend partisan divisions. One is that money should not influence the courts. But with record sums pouring into judicial elections, the ideal of due process is giving way to a perception of pay-to-play justice...
Last night's State of the Union address was about legacy-building. But President Bush spent only a moment of his hour-long speech on a subject that could be his most enduring legacy of all...
The Supreme Court's reversal of the lower court decisions in Lopez Torres v. New York State Board of Elections was a major victory for the defenders of New York's judicial selection status quo. That said...
It is not every day that a U.S. Supreme Court justice writes a separate one-paragraph opinion merely for the purpose of pointing out that, as a matter of policy, a state law is "stupid."
While the outside threats to judicial independence are serious and metastasizing, the unfortunate -- and for many, uncomfortable -- fact is that the de-legitimizing of America's courts is at least partly an inside job.
Today, the Supreme Court passed on the chance to give states guidance as to when judicial recusal might be constitutionally required. States do not have the corresponding luxury of ignoring that question.
