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Over the last year, the percentage of women serving on the state’s courts has risen from 36.1 percent to 38.2 percent. Governor Malloy has contributed to this uptick, selecting women for 46 of 102 judicial vacancies since taking office in 2007… MORE
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Prior to a campaign recess, the U.S. Senate confirmed two of the 17 pending nominees for federal district court vacancies. Fourteen of the 17 nominees received unanimous approval from the senate judiciary committee. Vacancies in the… MORE
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A Philadelphia-based Tea Party group vowed to challenge the retention of two supreme court justices on the ballot in 2013 if the state’s voter ID law is not in place for the November elections. The justices joined a 4-2 majority … MORE
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Though the state’s judicial elections are nonpartisan in the sense that party affiliation does not appear on the ballot, the state Democratic Party endorsed a state representative who is challenging the sitting chief justice. Republicans… MORE
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Iowans for Freedom announced plans for a statewide “NO Wiggins” bus tour that will oppose judicial activism and the retention of one of the seven justices who in 2009 recognized a right to same-sex marriage in the state’s constitution.… MORE
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The executive board of the state Republican Party voted to oppose the retention of three supreme court justices in November. At the same time, the justices have the support of some prominent Republicans and conservatives.
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The conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity launched a campaign to highlight the records of the three justices standing for retention in November. The campaign includes television ads criticizing a supreme court ruling that… MORE
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An analysis of voting in a supreme court primary election suggests “deep racial polarization.” In the race between incumbent justice Steve Gonzalez and a challenger who neither raised money nor campaigned, the challenger won 30 of 39… MORE
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A group known as the Oklahoma Civil Justice Council released ratings of supreme court justices based on how they have ruled in civil liability cases. The group is backed by the State Chamber, whose president says that the ratings are… MORE
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The Denver Bar Association's October edition of The Docket features a brief history of the American legal education system and mentions Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers' current efforts "to advance legal education and raise standards of competence and… MORE