Tag Archives: links of interest

Judicial Performance and Elections Senator Lindsey Graham, speaking at the ABA Annual Meeting this week, said that judicial qualifications should count more than politics. Information and statistics on federal judicial vacancies is available from the American Constitution Society and the Brookin...

Judicial Performance and Elections As we get closer to the fall election, questions about voter identification laws become ever more urgent. Democracy Now has an interview with Rep. John Lewis, 13-term Democratic congressman from Georgia. ProPublica offers Everything You Ever Wanted to Know abou...

Judicial Performance and Elections The American Constitution Society reports on a speech by Eric Holder at the NAACP Convention about the DOJ investigations of voter identification laws. Criminal Justice The Center for Court Innovation has an overview of  the Midtown Community Court's STARS p...

Criminal Justice The Just Policy Blog of the Justice Policy Institute had a thoughtful post on solitary confinement. The post links back to video of testimony before a hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights (Senate Committee on the Judiciary) entitled on Ju...

  Judicial Performance and Elections Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center participated in a US News and World Report Debate Club forum about voter fraud claims, "Voter Fraud Claims are Smoke without Fire." Earlier this week, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of Florida...