I was lucky enough to chair a panel at WPSA where Rebecca Gill presented the latest iteration of her research into how the judicial merit evaluations done under ABA guidelines actually work in practice, and the results are as depressing as you would expect: Following...
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This George W. Bush nominee to the District Court seems to be using the Carl Paladino defense for his racist email: The judge acknowledged that the content of the email.
Excellent post by Plumer about the challenge to the EPA's authority to issue regulations pertaining to greenhouse gases. If outright denialist arguments don't prevail, they could succeed in getting.
Anderson makes a great point with respect to Michael Daly Hawkins, the 9CA judge who implicitly argued that if Vaughn Walker was planning to get married it would be reasonable to demand his recusal: How on earth did Judge Hawkins get on the federal appellate...
Neither majority decided on the merits; they were rejected on standing and ripeness grounds, respectively. Much more about this later, although for know I'll say that I was happy to.
Because of both Senate obstructionism and the relatively low priority placed on them by the Obama administration, the pace of appointments to the federal judiciary has been regrettably low. But.
Fortunately, the idea that Judge Walker should recuse himself has been treated with the seriousness it deserves. Ed "But he even lives near San Fransisco!" Whelan doesn't like the ruling. I look forward to his post arguing that it was inappropriate for the majority in...
I have a new TAP piece about the unacceptably high vacancy rates on the federal courts. The best symbol of Republican obstructionism, to me, isn't Liu. I believe he should.
D.C. federal district judge Gladys Kessler issued the latest ruling, reinforcing the partisan trend. Her opinion is a very solid piece of work, and provides a good account of the.
Ah, the American judicial system. An employer engages in racial discrimination sufficiently egregious that an Alabama jury find it illegal. The 11th Circuit throws out the verdict. Its reasoning is so specious that a unanimous Supreme Court rejects it. Another jury finds the discrimination illegal. ...
Royce Lamberth is the kind of judge -- because of his crusades and inflammatory pronouncements on behalf generally but not exclusively reactionary positions -- who.
Vikram Amar has a good piece about the recent holding that Propoistion 8 is unconstitutional and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The most important point, I think, is that.