Diversity on the Bench
A diverse bench is essential to the delivery of impartial justice and to the preservation of confidence in our courts. Neither appointment processes nor elections are producing adequate levels of diversity on our federal and state courts. To promote judicial diversity, the Center conducts research and promotes scholarship on empirical and theoretical aspects of the issue. We also provide oral and written testimony advocating for improved diversity. Our support for public funding of judicial elections stems in part from our interest in improving diversity on the bench.There are no Publications for this category. You can browse all Publications here.
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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…
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.”
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Raises New Questions About Judicial Election Reform
An African American justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court lost his bid for re-election Tuesday in a racially charged and interest group-dominated campaign that raises new questions about the role of money in judicial campaigns.
Testimony of Deborah Goldberg on State Judicial Selection Methods and Their Impact on Diversity on t
“More research is needed to provide a basis for evaluation of selection processes.”
The 2008 reports continue the groundbreaking analysis first conducted in 2000 examining the sponsorship, content and costs of televised state Supreme Court campaign ads.