Model Code of Judicial Conduct
Author: American Bar Association
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781590318393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Bar Association
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781590318393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kenneth James Arnold
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Published:
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ISBN-13: 9780938065791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9781580120548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ronald M. George
Publisher: Berkeley Public Policy Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 846
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Based upon oral history interviews conducted by Laura McCreery, California Supreme Court Oral History Project."
Author: Philip B. Meggs
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780314955838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007-02-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0815782357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary. Are judges "activists"? Should they stop "legislating from the bench"? Are they abusing their authority? Or are they protecting fundamental rights, in a way that is indispensable in a free society? Are Judges Political? cuts through the noise by looking at what judges actually do. Drawing on a unique data set consisting of thousands of judicial votes, Cass Sunstein and his colleagues analyze the influence of ideology on judicial voting, principally in the courts of appeal. They focus on two questions: Do judges appointed by Republican Presidents vote differently from Democratic appointees in ideologically contested cases? And do judges vote differently depending on the ideological leanings of the other judges hearing the same case? After examining votes on a broad range of issues--including abortion, affirmative action, and capital punishment--the authors do more than just confirm that Democratic and Republican appointees often vote in different ways. They inject precision into an all-too-often impressionistic debate by quantifying this effect and analyzing the conditions under which it holds. This approach sometimes generates surprising results: under certain conditions, for example, Democrat-appointed judges turn out to have more conservative voting patterns than Republican appointees. As a general rule, ideology should not and does not affect legal judgments. Frequently, the law is clear and judges simply implement it, whatever their political commitments. But what happens when the law is unclear? Are Judges Political? addresses this vital question.