Litigation

Wednesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• The Florida Initiative for Electoral Reform criticized a legislative proposal to make it easier to dump judges from the bench, and it also used its press release to cite data from Justice at Stake and partner groups about soaring special interest spending in judicial elections.

• If Congress doesn’t negotiate a new budget and the federal government closes down, almost all trials and other federal court proceedings might come to a stop, the policy-making body for the federal judiciary warned, according to a Reuters article.

• There are  new reports about former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s support for ousting three Iowa Supreme Court judges last year. “Gingrich funnels $150K to Iowa groups that defeated justices by way of aide’s committee,” declared a Washington Post headline.

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).