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New York's judge-picking methods not a federal constitutional violation

By Walter Olson

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It's true, as the plaintiffs say: New York's judicial selection methods are at best opaque and outdated, at worst hackish and corrupt (more). But as the U.S. Supreme Court has now just unanimously confirmed, the way to fix that is...

Full post as published by Point of Law on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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