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  • Bush Has No Mandate to Remake the Courts: Right-Wing Appointments Won't Fly

    TomPaine.com

    May 14, 2001

    BUSH HAS NO MANDATE TO REMAKE THE COURTS: Right-Wing Appointments Won’t Fly

    By Mark Kozlowski

    May 14, 2001
    Fair Courts
    Justice for All

  • Bush Puts Strong Courts on Endangered Species List

    April 13, 2001

    Bush Puts Strong Courts on Endangered Species List

    By Deborah Goldberg

    President Bush wants to pick and choose when his administration will obey the law. In a budget document sent to Capitol Hill on Monday, he has asked Congress to eliminate funding needed for compliance with new court orders enforcing the Endangered Species Act. If the President gets his way, judges might decide that the government has violated that law, but administration officials will be able to thumb their noses at the courts.

    April 13, 2001
    Fair Courts
    Justice for All

  • Judicial Independence at the Crossroads

    April 2, 2001
    Fair Courts

  • The Court as a Political Body

    Legal Times, November 1, 1999

    The Court as a Political Body

    By Mark Kozlowski

    November 1, 1999
    Fair Courts

  • The Soul of an Elected Judge

    Legal Times

    August 9, 1999

    The Soul of an Elected Judge

    By Mark Kozlowski

    The idea of electing judges has an unsettling aspect that is almost self-evident. As Justice John Paul Stevens once said to the American Bar Association, the practice “is comparable to allowing football fans to elect the referees.” The practice is even more problematic when, as in a recent case from Louisiana, the fans occupying the luxury boxes exert a highly disproportionate influence over the electoral results.

    August 9, 1999
    Fair Courts

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