Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• “Justice Groups Support Judicial Campaign Proposal,” declared the headline of a New York Law Journal article about comments by Justice at Stake and the Brennan Center for Justice on a New York ethics proposal (see Gavel Grab for background).

• “Five years into his tenure, Justice Samuel Alito is the one conservative on the Supreme Court without a flashy legal signature,” began a commentary by Emily Bazelon in the New York Times magazine. It is entitled, “Mysterious Justice.”

• John O. Brennan, President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser, spoke to the Brennan Center for Justice. “White House Adviser Forcefully Defends Civilian Trials for Terrorist Suspects” was the headline of an article in the Main Justice blog about his remarks. The Brennan Center is a partner of Justice at Stake.

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 21, 2011 (boomark / email).