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By Peter Hardin
In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:
- ?Seventy-six percent of surveyed Pennsylvanians believe that campaign contributions affect judicial decision-making. In other words, the public believes justice is for sale,? Lynn Marks of Pennyslvanians for Modern Courts wrote in a letter to the editor of the Harrisburg Patriot-News. It responded to an op-ed by Dan Pero of the American Justice Partnership.
- Former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders is trying to accomplish a first in the state?s history: Running successfully for an opening on the state?s highest court after having been defeated in an earlier election, according to a Yakima Herald-Republic article.
- ?Unaccountable judiciary? Please. The judiciary is typically more accountable than Congress or the executive branch. And often more courageous, too,? legal analyst Andrew Cohen writes in an Atlantic commentary.
Full post as published by The Gavel on July 02, 2012 (boomark / email).
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