Fearing Political Backlash, Cal. Judges Decide to Go Public
Pamela A. McClean has this report in the National Law Journal. She writes:
The rise of nasty political campaigns targeting elected state judges nationally, coupled with the cost of judicial elections and a potential backlash over the gay marriage decision, has prompted California’s chief justice to hold the first public forum on preserving impartial courts . . .
[Law Professor Laurie Levenson] pointed to the 2005 comments by evangelist Rev. Pat Robertson that liberal judges are probably a more serious threat to America than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
Related:
Cal. Commission for Impartial Courts public forum - July 14th