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Monday, April 18, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS "should hold that the compelling interest in ensuring impartial judges is sufficient to permit restrictions on campaign spending that would be unconstitutional for nonjudicial elections"
So argue Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine, and James J. Sample, an associate professor of law at Hofstra, in an op-ed piece today in the NY Times, headed "You Get the Judges You Pay For", that begins:
LEGAL elites must come to terms with a reality driven by the grass-roots electorate: judicial elections are here to stay. Given this reality, we should focus on balancing important First Amendment rights to financially support campaigns with due process concerns about fair trials.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 18, 2011 10:45 AM
Posted to Courts in general