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It's Time to Get Judicial Retention Elections Off the Ballot in Illinois

David Orr | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ballot, Judicial, Judges, Judicial Retention, Cook County, Election, Cook-County-Clerk, Chicago News
David Orr

Judicial retention races are a paradox, where too much democracy means no democracy at all. Not a single judge has lost a retention election since 1990.

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"Justice Can't Wait:" Judicial Selection in the First 10 Months of the Obama Administration

Nan Aron | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Filibuster, Senate, Judicial Nominees, Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Obstructionism, Judges, President Obama, Politics News
Nan Aron

Alliance for Justice has released a new report on judicial selection in the first ten months of the Obama administration.

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A Day for A Day

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rouge Judges, Judges on the Take, Justice, Judges, Juvenile Justice, Wilkes-Barre, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

A couple of rouge judges in Wilkes-Barre, in the Northeast part of the state, destroyed the lives of thousands of young people because the judges were on the take.

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The Lawyers Who Would Torture

David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Tarp, George Bush, U.S. Economy, Law, Elizabeth Warren, Judges, David Cole, Economy, Books, Foreign Affairs, Economic Crisis, Rule of Law, George W. Bush, Ponzi Scheme, CIA Torture, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, John Yoo, Foreign Policy, John Yoo Memo, Politics, Human Rights, Cia, Torture Memos, Torture, Books News
David A. Love

Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.

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The Secret Chamber of Commerce and its "Tort Reform" Mission

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Washington State, Chamber of Commerce, Tort Reform, Corporations, Judges, Judicial System, Politics News
Joanne Doroshow

The U.S. Chamber created the ILR to pursue the Chamber's so-called "tort reform" agenda: protecting corporations from liability, weakening the civil jury system and blocking the courthouse door for sick and injured Americans.

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Judges Siding With Some Homeowners In Mortgage Court Fights

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Court, Debt, Judges, Economy, Real Estate, Mortgage Note, Mortgage, Lender, Homelessness, Note, Homeless, Banks, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Bankruptcy Court, Business News

FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn't a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took ...

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Who Owns Your Mortgage? "Produce The Note" Movement Helps Stall Foreclosures

Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Securitization, Mortgages, Show Me the Note, Produce the Note, Judges, Marcy Kaptur, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Mortgage Note, Brad Miller, Business News

Modern-day home mortgages have been so sliced and diced by rapacious financiers that some homeowners are successfully delaying -- or even blocking -- ...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: Stop Electing Judges

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Electing Judges, Judicial Branch, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judges, Sandra O'connor Appoint Judges Washington State, Sandra Day Oconnor at Seattle, Sandra Day O'connor Comments on Elected Judges, Politics News

SEATTLE — The first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court says there's a serious problem with the government in Washington and many other sta...

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Homeowners: The War Games Have Begun

Iris Martin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Predatory Lending Lawsuits, Court, Debt, Judges, Bobby Flay, War, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Mortgage Audit, Securitization, Subprime Mortgages, Loan Modifications, Predatory Lending, Federal Government, Banks, Foreclosure, Iattorneys, Mortgage Wars, Business News
Iris Martin

Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.

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Judges Punish Wall Street as Regulators Just Talk About Reform

Bloomberg | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Wall Street Corruption, Judge Denny Chin, Wall Street Crisis, Judges, Shira Scheindlin, Financial Crisis, Arthur M. Schack, Wall Street, Bernie Madoff, New York News

As the White House and Congress debate how to regulate financial firms to avoid another economic crisis, judges have assumed the point position in pun...

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Arthur Delaney

The Rise Of Fed-Up Judges

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Judges, Bankruptcy Judges, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Business News

Several reports over the last few days have featured judges who have gotten fed up with the shoddy paperwork turned in by banks that are trying to tak...

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Blagojevich Judge: Actor, Novelist, "No-Nonsense" Arbitrator

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 08.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Judges, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Scandal, James Zagel, Blagojevich Corruption, Blagojevich Trial Judge, Blagojevich Trial, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Judge James B. Zagel has meted out justice on the silver screen and masterminded a bank robbery in the pages of a novel. But the vete...

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"All Rise!": A Better Way of Justice Is Now In Session

Nick Gillie | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Addiction, All Rise, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug Courts, Judges, Criminal Justice System, Judicial System, Politics News
Nick Gillie

It is time to abandon "conventional" views that prison is the solution to addiction, and consider what the research says.

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Why do White People Have to Outscore Everybody Else on Tests? And Other Questions You've Wondered but Didn't Dare Ask!

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ricci v. Destefano, Whites, Supreme Court, Education, Conservatives, Judges, Sonia Sotomayor, Racism, Conservatism, Fire, Race, Prejudice, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

How can public institutions achieve "diversity" in a way that's fair and legal?

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Take the Whole Constitution Seriously: How to Restart a National Conversation on Federal Judges and Constitutional Meaning

Peter M. Shane | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, American Constitution Society, Constitution, Judges, Sotomayor, Politics News
Peter M. Shane

America's legal progressives are wondering how to re-engage the American public more generally in a serious discussion about the role of federal judge...

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Why Palestinians Were So Quick To Reject Netanyahu's Speech

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bush Palestinian State, Judges, Police, Olympics, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Oslo, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Imagine if in the past fifteen years you have been allowed all the trappings of a state. Since 1996 you have been allowed to field an Olympic team. That you have an elected parliament and an elected president.

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The Best Judge $3 Million Can Buy

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Coal, Don Blankenship, Matt Lauer, The Appeal, Judges, West Virginia, John Grisham, Today Show, Scalia, Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

The US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week gives a scary look at how justice in America is routinely bought and sold.

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Letting Go of a Foster Baby, with Great Reluctance

Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Foster Parents, Foster Care, Judges, Baby, Arlington-Virginia, Social-Workers, Justice, Guardian Ad Litem, Family Court, Living News
Tamar Abrams

Today I spent three hours in Hell -- the waiting room of the Family Court at the Arlington County, VA courthouse. As the foster parent of an infant, I...

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Sonia, Who? Way Outta Center-Left Field

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee, Conservatives, Centrism, Judges, Liberals, Sonia Sotomayor, Religious Right, Obama Centrist, Federal Court, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

President Obama has chosen one tough, intellectually dazzling, judicially seasoned woman as his Supreme Court pick.

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Will the California Supreme Court Strike Down Prop 8, or "Willy-Nilly Disregard" Its Duty?

Evan Wolfson | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Chief Justice Ronald George, No on Prop 8, California Supreme Court, Freedom to Marry, Constitution, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Evan Wolfson, Judges, Courts, Politics News
Evan Wolfson

Unlike right-wing opponents of equality, who denounce and seek to punish courts for doing their job, I criticize only when they flinch or fail to do it.

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Newt Gingrich Got It Right: The Battle Over the Courts

Martin Garbus | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Judge, Obama Appointments, Judges, Circuit Courts, Politics News
Martin Garbus

Isn't it clear by now that bipartisanship is and always has been an illusion?

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Obama's Judicial Legacy: Chapter One

Nan Aron | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges, Judicial Nominations, Politics News
Nan Aron

It looks like President Obama will begin leaving his mark on the federal bench -- and consequently on American law and life for decades to come -- sooner rather than later.

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Proposition 8 Belongs Before California's Supreme Court

Carey Alexander | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gay Rights, California, Proposition 8, Judges, Judicial Review, California Supreme Court, National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, The Judiciary, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Politics News
Carey Alexander

Beyond the core issues surrounding Proposition 8 lies a far deeper question affecting the very nature of our democracy: Can the court review laws?

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Two Pennsylvania Judges Accused Of Jailing Kids For Millions Of Dollars In Kickbacks

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 03.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Wlikes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Judges, Judges, Home News

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges wi...

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Obama and the Constitution: Our Nation's Unfinished Business

Doug Kendall | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, 14th Amendment, Second Founding, New Birth of Freedom, Judges, Reconstruction, Obama Inauguration, Federalist Society, Constitution, Barack Obama, Politics News
Doug Kendall

Obama must secure "a new birth of freedom" for the 21st century, push the Supreme Court to enforce the text and history of the Reconstruction Amendments, and nominate Justices who will do the same.

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