Litigation

Friday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Several Republican members of Congress are seeking a Justice Department investigation of possible “threats” against conservative justices of the Supreme Court, saying rallies by Common Cause seem to “incite violence and encourage racial slurs,” Fox News reported.

• Using a Freedom of Information Act, the watchdog group “Judicial Watch goes after [Supreme Court] Justice Elena Kagan’s potential conflict of interest after Obamacare,” according to the headline for an article on the Daily Caller news site.

• “Revolutionary legislation” (for Arkansas) would provide for merit selection of the state’s Court of Appeals judges, according to a blog of the Arkansas Times. The 12 judges currently are elected.

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 05, 2011 (boomark / email).