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Is The ABA Biased Or Accurate? Liberal Judges May Just Be Better

By Dan Filler

Ask yourself this: should a good judge exhibit open mindedness?  A commitment to equal justice? Compassion?  There's an awful good case to be made that most of us - including folks of all different political stripes - would see these as particular judicial virtues.  If so, my colleague Adam Benforado argues at the Situationist, liberals might be best suited to the art of judging because liberals - more than conservatives - embrace these values.  So maybe the ABA is only being meritocratic.  As Adam writes: 

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).