Free To Judge

Author : Michael Kang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503636208
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free to Judge written by Michael Kang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that wealthy people use their money to influence things, including politics, law, and media will surprise very few people. However, as Michael S. Kang and Joanna Shepherd argue in this readable and rich study of the state judiciary, the effect of money on judicial outcomes should disturb and anger everyone. In the current system that elects state judges, the rich and powerful can spend money to elect and re-elect judges who decide cases the way they want. Free to Judge is about how and why money increasingly affects the dispensation of justice in our legal system, and what can be done to stop it. One of the barriers to action in the past has been an inability to prove that campaign donations influence state judicial decision-making. In this book, Kang and Shepherd answer that challenge for the first time, with a rigorous empirical study of campaign finance and judicial decision-making data. Pairing this with interviews of past and present judges, they create a compelling and persuasive account of people like Marsha Ternus, the first Iowa state supreme court justice to be voted out of office after her decision in a same-sex marriage case. The threat of such an outcome, and the desire to win reelection, results in judges demonstrably leaning towards the interests and preferences of their campaign donors across all cases. Free to Judge is thus able to identify the pieces of our current system that invite bias, such as judicial reelection, and what reforms should focus on. This thoughtful and compellingly written book will be required reading for anybody who cares about creating a more just legal system.

Author : Tim Fall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725260883
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running for Judge written by Tim Fall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't often hear of elected officials who are battling mental illness. Social, professional, and political stigma are the problem, yet a quarter of our population has anxiety, depression, or both, and continue to be productive and effective on the job, in their families, and around their communities. This is a mental health memoir even more than a memoir of a judicial election. Judges, as much as anyone else, carry huge responsibilities. Faith, family, friends, and good medical care are part of the process for addressing mental illness that threatens to interfere with those responsibilities. If you battle mental illness or know someone who does (and you do, statistics show), others may try to convince you that mental illnesses like depression and anxiety are all in your head. Tell them this: "Of course, mental illness is all in your head. And a heart attack is all in your chest. Go see a doctor either way." This book will help you feel better equipped to tell them that yourself.

Author : G. E. Patterson
Publisher : Whitaker Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9780883687758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here Comes the Judge written by G. E. Patterson and published by Whitaker Distribution. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. E. Patterson challenges you to let Christ break the shackles of low self-esteem, poverty, and spiritual dryness off of your life.

Author : Erwin W. Lutzer
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 080248008X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Are You To Judge? written by Erwin W. Lutzer and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A church that has made its peace with the world can no longer affect it! As 21st century Christians, we have settled down to a complacent form of faith that demands very little of us, and thus makes very little impact on the world. When secular values infiltrate the church, we accept them without a twinge of conscience and congratulate ourselves on our tolerance. We believe that we no longer have the right to challenge secular trends and decisions, in or out of the church. Erwin Lutzer looks at today's world, and confronts us with our responsibility, as believers in the church of Jesus Christ, to again be a force for what is right...not easy.

Author : Rick Malter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874183221
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shrinking the Judge written by Rick Malter and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris W. Bonneau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135852685
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Judicial Elections written by Chris W. Bonneau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or should they be subject to the approval of the electorate and the processes that accompany popular control? While this debate is interesting and often quite heated, it usually occurs without reference to empirical facts--or at least accurate ones. Also, empirical scholars to date have refused to take a position on the normative issues surrounding the practice. Bonneau and Hall offer a fresh new approach. Using almost two decades of data on state supreme court elections, Bonneau and Hall argue that opponents of judicial elections have made—and continue to make—erroneous empirical claims. They show that judicial elections are efficacious mechanisms that enhance the quality of democracy and create an inextricable link between citizens and the judiciary. In so doing, they pioneer the use of empirical data to shed light on these normative questions and offer a coherent defense of judicial elections. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of judicial selection, law and politics, or the electoral process. Part of the Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation series edited by Matthew J. Streb.

Author : Laura Gehl
Publisher : Sterling Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781454934325
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judge Juliette written by Laura Gehl and published by Sterling Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court is in session, with Judge Juliette presiding! This young girl, with a firm sense of fairness, settles all kinds of neighborhood disputes right from her own backyard--from determining a fair bedtime to locating competing lemonade stands. But now she's faced with her toughest decision yet: her parents have finally agreed to let her have a pet . . . and they're in her court, arguing whether to get a cat or dog. What will Juliette do?

Author : Aharon Barak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827043
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Judge in a Democracy written by Aharon Barak and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes before them under law? What are the criteria for judging the justices who write opinions for the United States Supreme Court or constitutional courts in other democracies? These are the questions that one of the world's foremost judges and legal theorists, Aharon Barak, poses in this book. In fluent prose, Barak sets forth a powerful vision of the role of the judge. He argues that this role comprises two central elements beyond dispute resolution: bridging the gap between the law and society, and protecting the constitution and democracy. The former involves balancing the need to adapt the law to social change against the need for stability; the latter, judges' ultimate accountability, not to public opinion or to politicians, but to the "internal morality" of democracy. Barak's vigorous support of "purposive interpretation" (interpreting legal texts--for example, statutes and constitutions--in light of their purpose) contrasts sharply with the influential "originalism" advocated by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. As he explores these questions, Barak also traces how supreme courts in major democracies have evolved since World War II, and he guides us through many of his own decisions to show how he has tried to put these principles into action, even under the burden of judging on terrorism.

Author : Anastasia Higginbotham
Publisher : Ordinary Terrible Things
ISBN 13 : 9781948340007
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not My Idea written by Anastasia Higginbotham and published by Ordinary Terrible Things. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of color are eager for white people to deal with their racial ignorance. White people are desperate for an affirmative role in racial justice. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness helps with conversations the nation is, just now, finally starting to have.

Author : Polly J. Price
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 161592101X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judge Richard S. Arnold written by Polly J. Price and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through internal court documents, interviews, and Arnold's diaries, Price traces the former judge's life, career, and political transformation from an elite Southerner with deep misgivings about "Brown v. Board of Education" to a modern champion of civil rights.