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Seeking thoughts on a "professional judiciary" for sentencing law

By Douglas A. Berman

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Over at Concurring Opinions, Gerard Magliocca has this post, titled "A Professional Judiciary?", which note and criticizes the early pattern of President Obama to elevate lower court judges in his nomination choices. Here it is in full: Yesterday I was struck by an interesting fact. Thus far, all but one of President Obama?s Circuit Court nominees are sitting District Court judges. Justice Sotomayor, of course, was promoted by President from the Second Circuit after serving on the District Court in New York. I think this is a bad trend. One of the strengths of our judiciary, in contrast to the European civil service tradition, is that we draw on people with a wide variety of backgrounds (private attorneys, elected officials, prosecutors, and ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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