Election-Campaign Law

"The Irony of Judicial Elections"
Introduction to The Irony of Judicial Elections by David E. Pozen in Columbia Law Review: Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatic transformation. For more than a century, these state and local elections were relatively dignified, low-key...

The Irony of Judicial Elections
David Pozen’s “The Irony of Judicial Elections” is forthcoming at the Columbia Law Review and is available on SSRN here. The abstract is available below the fold. Abstract: Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatic transformation...

Merit Selection or Election of State Court Judges
Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections (NYU Press, July 1, 2009) examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by providing a timely, insightful analysis of judicial elections...

OConnor Talks Election Reform in MN
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, traveling widely to call for an end to state judicial elections, visited Minnesota to support eliminating contested judicial elections there...

A Conditional Theory of Judicial Accountability
Critics of judicial elections have traditionally argued that such elections are insipid events marked by low levels of participation and low levels of information.  Under such conditions, it is difficult to imagine elections that achieve their stated goal of promoting accountability to the citizenry...

JAS Featured in Report on Big Money in Judicial Elections
Skeptics play down the significance of Citizens United. But data from state-level judicial elections show major political expenditures by corporations and real cause for concern, the National Journal reports in an article that prominently cites the Justice at Stake Campaign...

Down ballot races: judicial elections
With the top of the ticket all but decided (Senator McCain is purportedly trailing in early voting even in his home state), media attention is starting to turn to down ballot races...

SCOTUS Justices on state judicial elections
The Brennan Center for Justice recounts a recent conference at Fordham Law School on state judicial elections which featured former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer...

Minnesota Considers Judicial Reforms
   Minnesota is pushing judicial reforms in light of the ?rough-and-tumble? politics that have defined Wisconsin?s recent judicial elections, according to an article on MinnPost.com...

Judicial elections around the corner
Here is a Wichita Eagle article reporting on a couple of contests for open judicial seats in Sedgwick County. Elections are just two weeks away!

Self Defense
It's legal to defend yourself and your family

CIA
Department of Defense Sued by Veterans

Ministry of Defense
$500,000 in damages in transgender humiliation suit.

The Ministry of Defense
$500,000 in damages in transgender humiliation suit.

Government Overbilling
Defense contractor to pay $8.9 million settlement in fraud lawsuit.